Today we have positive and negative charges in an orderly binary system. We owe that orderliness to its original discoverer — Charles Du Fay. If he hadn't ...

While hot electrons can have temperatures as high as 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, it’s their high energy – rather than the material temperature – that makes them useful for energy technologies. In solar ...

Physicists at the University of California, Irvine have discovered a brand-new state of quantum matter—something that has ...

Scientists have discovered electrons that can 'swing dance.' This unique electronic behavior can potentially lead to new families of quantum devices. A research team led by the University of ...

Jan. 5, 1896: An Austrian newspaper reports Wilhelm Roentgen’s discovery of a new type of radiation, which becomes known as an X-ray ...

In 2024, superconductivity—the flow of electric current with zero resistance—was discovered in three distinct materials. Two instances stretch the textbook understanding of the phenomenon. The ...