Chinese scientists have recently achieved the fabrication of single-atom-layer metals with a thickness of merely ...

Imagine being able to flip a material from transparent to opaque, or reshape its properties in less than a billionth of a ...

For decades, quantum imaging has promised sharper images and greater light sensitivity than classical methods by exploiting ...

Or a house with wooden windows? Probably not—unless you've heard of transparent wood. Made by modifying wood's natural structure, this material has been proposed as a sturdy, eco-friendly ...

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University of Queensland scientists have cracked a long-standing puzzle in nuclear physics, showing that nuclear polarization ...

Momentum space is a concept in physics that describes the motion of electrons in terms of energy and direction. (Image: think-design | Jochen Thamm) It has long been known that electrons can form ...

If individual electrons do not carry electricity, then what does? The Fermi liquid explanation of electrical transport is one of the foundational successes of condensed matter physics—the study of ...

Nuclear physics is the study of the protons and neutrons at the centre of an atom and the interactions that hold them together in a space just a few femtometres (10-15 metres) across. Example ...

In a discovery that brings a legendary quantum theory to life, physicists at Princeton University have directly observed ...

Sub-wavelength optics is the study of light on a spatial scale smaller than its wavelength. Conventionally, the minimum length scale on which a beam of light can operate is equal to half its ...