Fusion startups are racing to prove that they can bottle the power of the stars without the sprawling magnets or precision ...

Measuring conditions in volatile clouds of superheated gases known as plasmas is central to pursuing greater scientific understanding of how stars, nuclear detonations and fusion energy work. For ...

One of the discoveries that fundamentally distinguished the emerging field of quantum physics from classical physics was the observation that matter behaves differently at the smallest scales. A key ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) represents a pinnacle of high-energy physics research, where colliding proton beams at unprecedented energies have propelled exploration into the subatomic realm.

Claudio Emma and Brendan O’Shea examine experimental apparatus at FACET-II in 2022. Scientists have created an ultrashort electron beam with five times more peak current than any other similar beam on ...

Claudio Emma and Brendan O'Shea examine experimental apparatus at FACET-II in 2022. Credit: Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Scientists have created an ultrashort ...

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Metal clusters made of thousands of atoms showed quantum interference, offering new insight into how large objects follow quantum rules.

Particle therapy using a mix of carbon-, oxygen- and neon-ion beams helps tune the fine balance between range robustness, uniform dose and high linear energy transfer ...

For the first time, researchers from Tokyo University of Science have observed wave-like interference patterns from ...