Scientists worked with electricity long before they understood that current was made of electrons. The cathode tube was a prime example. By switching on some voltage, scientists could make ...
The question of what protons or neutrons are made up of has an apparently simple answer: quarks and gluons. However, when it ...
The High Energy Stereoscopic System is a ground-based gamma-ray telescope in the highlands of Namibia and sensitive in the ...
Astrophysicists have detected the most energetic electrons ever recorded raining down on Earth. With trillions of times the ...
Scientists at High Energy Stereoscopic System in Namibia have detected most energetic cosmic electrons ever observed after ...
MIT physicists have taken a key step toward solving the puzzle of what leads electrons to split into fractions of themselves. Their solution sheds ...
This week marks the centenary of the French physicist Louis de Broglie's doctoral thesis, which later earned him a Nobel prize for "his discovery of the wave nature of electrons." This discovery ...
Light isn’t just for seeing—it can also give things a push. When light travels, it carries energy and momentum, which is like ...
The new finding draws on the Feynman-Hellmann theorem, a principle in quantum mechanics that examines how energy changes in a ...
Indeed, some might have considered it arrogant to think they were part of the generation to have discovered the true fundamental particles. However, electrons have resisted this sort of infinite ...