Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics ...

By using ultrafast lasers, researchers have observed electrons moving in perfect sync inside particles smaller than a ...

Purdue’s strong academic reputation and prestige pushes it to No. 11 among nation’s public universities, 26th overall in U.S.

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most ...

It may be the smallest, shortest chorus dance ever recorded. An international team of researchers observed how electrons, excited by ultrafast light pulses, danced in unison around a particle less ...

Zifei Lu joined the Royal Society of Chemistry as an assistant editor in August 2023. Before transitioning into publishing, ...

Spherical fullerenes are also called buckyballs, whereas cylindrical ones are known as nanotubes. The walls of these structures consist of a single layer of carbon atoms (graphene). Upgrading ...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the University of California, Berkeley, have developed an artificial leaf that uses sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into valuable hydrocarbons, ...

“Our lives should not be sacrificed this easily”: Camp Fire tragedy leads to new wildfire research The National Science Foundation has awarded Assistant Professor Hamed Ebrahimian a $2 million grant ...

Researchers create polyesteramides from brassylic acid and explore their potential as a replacement for polyethylene ...

Using attosecond, extreme ultraviolet light pulses, the team triggered and recorded the behavior of electrons within soccer-ball-shaped carbon molecules, informally known as “buckyballs,” that ...