An international research group has now made significant progress in the further development of compact plasma accelerators, considered a promising technology for the future: With two complementary ...

One of the deepest mysteries in quantum physics is the wave-particle duality: every quantum object has properties of both a wave and a particle. Nowhere is this effect more beautifully demonstrated ...

The particle-wave nature of light has fascinated researchers for more than 200 years, but a new experiment has allowed researchers to visualize it like never before. This image was taken by turning an ...

Light combines the properties of "particle" and "wave", but until now both of these properties, which could not be observed at the same time,Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)The ...

Data may challenge and reshape current models of solar wind evolution. A recent study led by Dr. Michael Starkey of the ...

In 1905, Albert Einstein provided an explanation of the photoelectric effect – that various metals emit electrons when light is shined on them – by suggesting that a beam of light is not simply a wave ...

Scientists from the UK and the USA have successfully demonstrated a new technique that could help to shrink the size and cost of future particle accelerators for fundamental physics experiments and ...

Classically, light can be thought of in two ways: either as a particle or a wave. But what is it really? Well, the 'observer effect' makes that question kind of difficult to answer. So before we get ...

There’s an idea that suggests all the universe’s electrons are actually one particle forever traveling backwards and forwards in time. It’s a simple, elegant idea that solves some of physics’s biggest ...