Experiments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) require breathtaking precision. Each ...

Attosecond pulses capture ultrafast electron and light–matter dynamics on the shortest timescales accessible to controlled experiments, making them indispensable tools for ultrafast spectroscopy, ...

Researchers from Skoltech and the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics have developed an approach that helps optimize the parameters of a laser-plasma source of attosecond pulses—ultrashort ...

What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According to a recent publication from the lab of Rice University’s James Tour, it ...

When a beam of light passes through a cloud of atoms, photons (particles of light) sometimes appear to spend a negative amount of time there, with light seeming to exit the cloud before it even enters ...

Diamond Light Source and ISIS Neutron and Muon Source face cuts of up to 20% as Science and Technology Facilities Council seeks savings ...

Put on your lab coat! It's time for another series of Play School's Science Time! With help from some very clever friends, ...