Recent Articles
Synopsis: A Laser Steers Electrons Inside Graphene
Orthogonally polarized laser pulses produce a controllable, variable current whose direction can be reversed in less than a femtosecond. Read More »
Synopsis: Throwing Dust at Planet Formation
Astrophysicists dropped beads onto clumps of dust to better understand how planets coalesce from particulates. Read More »
Viewpoint: Cloud Drops Stick Together
An imaging probe on an airplane observes the clustering of water droplets in clouds, confirming a predicted effect that is correlated with rainfall. Read More »
Focus: How to Locate a Nanoparticle with Sub-angstrom Precision
Laser tricks allow nanoparticle position measurements with a record 0.6-angstrom uncertainty, which will be useful in future nanotech devices. Read More »
Synopsis: Ion Suppresses Rydberg Creation
Forming an ion in an ultracold atomic cloud delays the subsequent creation of a Rydberg atom until the ion wanders away. Read More »
Synopsis: Dark Matter Blowing Like a Hurricane
The dark matter in our stellar neighborhood may be moving at high speed, which might produce a signature that future dark matter searches could detect. Read More »
Synopsis: Detecting Nuclear Decay with Recoil
Small particles levitated in an optical trap can recoil from radioactive decays in a way that identifies their nuclear composition, a new theoretical study suggests. Read More »
Focus: How Cracks Interact with the Sounds They Make
The acoustic waves emitted by a propagating crack can affect the crack’s motion and the marks it leaves behind. Read More »
Viewpoint: Record Distance for Quantum Cryptography
An optical-fiber-based quantum cryptography scheme works over a record distance of 421 km and at much faster rates than previous long-distance demonstrations. Read More »
