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What occurs when you subject a metal renowned for its stability, blast it with a laser pulse only 45 femtoseconds in duration, and heat it to 19,000 kelvins but it won’t melt? Physicists had long ...

Using the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, the team blasted the superheated gold with pulses of ultrabright X-rays. The scattered X-ray photons ...

Is the Moon’s slow retreat from Earth a cosmic time bomb in our planet’s relationship or an entry to the precision of modern ...

Gold usually melts at 1,300 kelvins—a temperature hotter than fresh lava from a volcano. The feat was completely unexpected ...

Physicists superheated gold to 14 times its melting point, disproving a long-standing prediction about the temperature limits ...

A team of researchers has finally detected hidden magnetism in non-magnetic metals using only laser light—solving a 150-year ...

Scientists have cracked a century-old physics mystery by detecting magnetic signals in non-magnetic metals using only light and a revamped laser technique. Previously undetectable, these faint ...

The sPHENIX particle detector, the newest experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the U.S. Department of ...

Researchers have discovered a light-based method to reveal faint magnetic signals in metals like copper and gold, opening new ...

A team of scientists has developed a powerful new way to detect subtle magnetic signals in common metals like copper, gold, ...

This study reveals nonlinear optical properties of semiconductor-metal nanocavities, enhancing imaging techniques for advanced nanophotonic device development.