When J.J. Thomson stood before the Royal Institution in 1897 to share his latest findings, few in the audience likely realized just how much physics was about to change. The particles he described - ...

The orbital angular momentum of electrons has long been considered a minor physical phenomenon, suppressed in most crystals and largely overlooked. Scientists have now discovered that in certain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s pretty hard to imagine a world without electrons. With no electrons, there would be no TV, no radio, no internet. No ...

In 1932, Arthur Compton's experiments with cosmic rays revealed an unexpected particle. This particle, observed via a cloud ...

Researchers have identified a new class of quantum states in a custom-engineered graphene structure. The study reports the discovery of topological electronic crystals in twisted bilayer -- trilayer ...