At CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), lead atom nuclei, accelerated in opposite directions, collide at speeds close to the ...

From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of “chiral” objects that differ from their ...

The 31st Quark Matter conference was the best attended in the series’ history, with more than 1000 participants.

How is it possible for the ISS to stay in orbit? Learn more about the science behind orbiting Earth and more in this NASA ...

The orbital angular momentum of electrons has long been considered a minor physical phenomenon, suppressed in most crystals and largely overlooked. Scientists have now discovered that in certain ...

By extending a key law in quantum information to systems with long-range interactions, RIKEN physicists have enhanced its ...

If you've ever watched a flock of birds move in perfect unison or seen ripples travel across a pond, you've witnessed nature's remarkable ability to coordinate motion. Recently, a team of scientists ...

Dark matter may have started as light-like particles that abruptly became heavy—a cosmic twist rooted in spin and ...

Symmetry has been considered an unshakable property in physics, but strange quark behavior caused it to fail in a scientific ...

Optical Interactions in Solids presents an extensive and unified treatment of the basic principles of the optical properties of solids. It provides a theoretical background to workers in the field of ...