A single green laser, a glass bead smaller than a bacterium and a lab in Austria are helping you see lightning in a new way.

Using a precisely aligned pair of laser beams, scientists can now hold a single aerosol particle in place and monitor how it ...

As carbon-14 breaks down, it gives off beta rays. When these beta particles strike a semiconductor —a special type of material that can carry electric current—they kick off a chain reaction. This ...

Antimatter particles are mirror versions of matter particles, with the opposite values of properties such as electric charge.

In a lab filled with bouncing green lasers and an anti-vibration table that hums a soft, squishy sound, the researchers used ...

Among ionising radiation, alpha and beta particles are charged particles that have widely attracted research attention because of their use in a number of applications including smoke detectors, ...

Physicists have demonstrated for the first time that laser-accelerated protons follow the direction of the laser light. By incorporating this new data into a conventional model describing the laser ...