To Look or Not to Look? That Is the Question

It can be a little hard to believe it’s back-to-school season already. And while there are still some long, relaxed days of summer ahead, it’s also the time when families begin to plan for the coming school year. School clothes…

The dancing lights of fireflies and the eerie blue sparkle in crashing waves get their glow when a molecular square of carbon and oxygen atoms breaks. New research from Stanford University has shown that mechanical force can cause that break…

In a new Nature Physics study, researchers accelerated electrons to more than twice the energy predicted by the traditional dephasing limit for laser-plasma accelerators operating over the same distance. This was made possible by a specially engineered laser pulse called…