Scientists have made the first experimental observation of matter wave diffraction in a short-lived electron-positron atom.

In materials science, if you can understand the "texture" of a material—how its internal patterns form and shift—you can ...

(Nanowerk News) Scientists have long known that electrons are indivisible fundamental particles. Yet surprising new research shows that a weird feature of quantum mechanics can be used to produce ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have just found evidence of “dark electrons”—electrons you can’t see using spectroscopy—in solid materials. By ...

The quantum rules shaping molecular collisions are now coming into focus, offering fresh insights for chemistry and materials science. When molecules collide with surfaces, a complex exchange of ...

Researchers have shown that surprisingly large metal particles can behave according to quantum mechanics, existing in ...

The double-slit connection In their paper, the authors draw an elegant analogy to the famous double-slit experiment, where particles like electrons produce interference patterns when passed through ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at Rice University and their collaborators have achieved a groundbreaking demonstration of strong interference between ...

Thomas Young, born 250 years ago this week, was a polymath who made seminal contributions in fields from physics to Egyptology. But perhaps his most enduring legacy is proving Isaac Newton wrong about ...