Last year marked the 270th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s lightning rod — but it’s more than a relic of history. The Franklin rod remains in use today because the simple design exploits some ...

In a striking glimpse into extreme physics, scientists have captured the split-second chaos that unfolds when powerful laser ...

In a world-first, physicists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and Forschungszentrum Jülich have shown that helium-3 ions retain their spin alignment during laser–plasma acceleration. This ...

Strong field laser physics investigates the interaction between intense laser pulses and matter, a domain where non-linear phenomena such as multiphoton absorption, tunnelling ionisation, and ...

Researchers from Bar-Ilan University have successfully recreated key features of black hole physics in a laboratory setting ...

Physicists in Germany have demonstrated for the first time that the polarization, or spin alignment, of Helium-3 ions is preserved during laser–plasma acceleration. The result could boost prospects ...

Tailored profiles: The working principle of the new metalaser. The designed geometric phase profile is introduced to the metasurface by rotating the hole in each silicon nitride nanodisk. Then the ...

For 26-year-old Dani, the quote on her ribcage once meant everything. "It was something about freedom and finding yourself," she says with a smile that edges toward embarrassment. "Now I just want to ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It wasn’t so long ago that I was in graduate ...