You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, ...

Watching proteins move as they drive the chemical reactions that sustain life is one of the grand challenges of modern ...

MIT physicists have built a new microscope that can see quantum motion inside superconductors ...

Q: What are diffraction gratings? A diffraction grating is an optical component for spectroscopy that splits light into different wavelengths. A typical diffraction grating has thousands of grooves ...

With the terahertz scope, the team observed a frictionless “superfluid” of superconducting electrons that were collectively ...

Researchers at Santa Clara University have developed a comprehensive mathematical framework to rigorously analyze and predict ...

X-ray diffraction methods lie at the foundation of materials science. Determination of the crystal structures of natural minerals and, later, of crystals grown in the laboratory led to our ...

By squeezing terahertz light beyond its usual limits, researchers have exposed hidden quantum "jiggles" inside a ...

Condensed-matter physics and materials science have a silo problem. Although researchers in these fields have access to vast amounts of data – from experimental records of crystal structures and ...

Earth's core contains nine to 45 times more hydrogen than the planet's oceans do, according to a new study that could settle a debate about when and how hydrogen was delivered to Earth.

For over a century, light has both helped and limited our view of the ...

Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That ...