NASA has released the closest-ever photos of the sun, taken by the Parker Solar Probe at just 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) from the star's surface. The new images reveal important ...

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and ...

This channel electron multiplier amplifies the faint signals generated in some types of mass spectrometry and other precision analytical techniques. Electrons are focused into the curved device, where ...

Quantum dots beat traditional photosensitizers at their own game. They tackle reactions once thought too tough for ...

St. Elmo's Fire is a term you may have heard before because of a 1985 "Brat Pack" movie. St. Elmo's fire is a somewhat rare ...

Fireworks were first invented serendipitously by the Chinese in 200 B.C. but getting that perfect blue is a challenge ...

The photoelectric effect, first explained in 1905, transformed our understanding of how light interacts with matter. When ...

To make a truly realistic fake picture of a galaxy, you can model exactly how light particles travel through the atmosphere and telescope to reach its sensor.

The Large Hadron Collider is one of the biggest experiments in history, but it’s also one of the hardest to interpret. Unlike ...

MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space— “free-range” particles never seen before.

New Organic Semiconductor That Spirals Electrons Like a Corkscrew Could Lead to Brighter, More Energy-Efficient Screens The technology could be applied to not just screens but also quantum ...