For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current theories, matter and its counterpart, ...

In 1956, physicist David Pines theorized the existence of a massless, neutral plasmon called a “demon” that could help ...

For the first time, scientists have observed electrons in graphene behaving like a nearly perfect quantum fluid, challenging a long-standing puzzle in physics. By creating ultra-clean samples, the ...

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...