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Scientists Have Witnessed For The First Time The Formation Of A Supercharged Particle

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Here’s what you’ll learn by reading this story: Scientists fired lasers at semiconductor nano-lasagna to show how electrons behave. In the right conditions, electrons become polarons, pulling oppositely charged atoms for a ride. The researchers took pictures of the newly born quasiparticle and measured its energy and mass. Scientists at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich … Read more

Physicists Discover Something That Can Travel Faster Than Light: The Darkness Inside It

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For the first time, physicists have discovered that ‘holes’ of light can travel faster than light itself. They are known as phase singularities or optical vortices, and since the 1970s, scientists have predicted that, just as the eddies in the river can move faster than the water flowing around them, so can the waves of … Read more