If there weren’t any planets, stars, comets, asteroids, or other cosmic debris flying around, there would be merely the ...

A photon enters an extraordinarily intense laser field. When it exits, its polarization has rotated, as though empty space ...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would stay unexplained ...

Let me tell you a story about virtual particles. It may or may not be true. Let me tell you a story about virtual particles. It may or may not be true.

Quantum physicists regularly ask you with a straight face to accept what seems to be complete nonsense. Particles are also waves; cats are alive and dead at the same time. But some of the most ...

Spin out: visualization of a general-relativistic collisionless plasma simulation shows the density of positrons near the event horizon of a rotating black hole. Plasma instabilities produce ...

The underlying mechanism is investigated using discrete element methods simulations.