To unlock materials of the future, including better photocatalysts or light-switchable superconductors, researchers need to ...

A group of scientists has found a way to spot very faint magnetic signals in everyday metals like copper, gold, and aluminum, using only light and a refined technique. Their study, published in Nature ...

Fleeting electron-hole pairs are giving scientists a new window into optimizing light-emitting devices (LEDs). Using quantum ...

Electricity in a circuit doesn’t behave the way many people imagine. Instead of electrons carrying energy all the way from the battery to the bulb, the energy actually travels through electric fields ...

Electrons in solar materials can be launched across molecules almost as fast as nature allows, thanks to tiny atomic vibrations acting like a “molecular catapult.” In experiments lasting just 18 ...

Mercury is a metal, yet it has some weird physical properties, including being a liquid at room temperature.

When Richard Feynman first conceived of quantum computers in the 1980s, he believed they should primarily investigate quantum phenomena. So that’s what a group of chemists did: they used quantum ...

Published today in Science, the discovery marks the creation and observation of the first molecule with a half-Möbius ...

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have revealed a new mechanism that allows electrons to move across solar materials at new speeds ...

A tiny burst of motion inside a molecule may be enough to shove an electron across a solar material almost as fast as nature ...

Russia’s President is profiting from rising oil prices, but he’s also facing a hard new reality: he’s no longer the lead ...

Researchers directly observed electron-hole pairs in light-emitting electrochemical cells, finding that ion-driven electric field changes affect recombination and that stable, lower-voltage fields ...