Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never stops — even at absolute zero.

What are some of the fastest events in the Universe? Electron motion around an atom ranks right up there. Next question: how do you measure the fastest events in the Universe? (hint: Casio is not ...

It may be the smallest, shortest chorus dance ever recorded. As reported in Science Advances, an international team of researchers observed how electrons, excited by ultrafast light pulses, danced in ...

Swing dancing. Songwriting. And theoretical condensed matter physics. It's a unique person who can master all three, but a University of Alberta PhD student has done all that and taken it one step ...

Scientists have successfully created an ultrapure material that captures new states of matter and could have applications in high-speed quantum computing. The material, gallium arsenide, is used to ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A team of Purdue University researchers is among a small group in the world that has successfully created ultrapure material that captures new states of matter and could have ...

In the basement of Hoyt Laboratory at Princeton University, Alexei Tyryshkin clicked a computer mouse and sent a burst of microwaves washing across a silicon crystal suspended in a frozen cylinder of ...

You can't see them, but swarms of electrons are buzzing through the magnetic environment -- the magnetosphere -- around Earth. The electrons spiral and dive around the planet in a complex dance ...

The synchronized dance of electrons, known as plasmonic resonance, can confine light for brief periods of time. That light-trapping ability has been applied in a wide range of areas, from turning ...

NASA's MMS mission studies how electrons spiral and dive around the planet in a complex dance dictated by the magnetic and electric fields, and a new study revealed a bizarre new type of motion ...