Every time a commercial plane takes to the air, it enters a world pervaded by unseen forces, none more dramatic than lightning.

A research team led by Prof. Yong Gaochan from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

Transistors are fundamental to microchips and modern electronics. Invented by Bardeen and Brattain in 1947, their development ...

CAS Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2735, Beijing 100190, China School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese ...

A new book on quantum physics is pleasingly full of cutting-edge topics. Yet it isn't the accessible work it promised to be ...