At the smallest scales of nature, the rules of the world shift in ways that can feel unsettling and beautiful at the same ...

Waves of all types inevitably spread out while propagating, owing to diffraction. Under certain strict conditions, however, waves can be made to propagate without diffraction. Although this has been ...

Physicists have finally watched positronium, a short‑lived atom made of an electron and its antimatter twin, behave like a rippling quantum wave instead of a tiny billiard ball. In a set of ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new imaging technique that uses electron diffraction waves to improve both image resolution and sensitivity to small structures has been developed by scientists at the University ...

The first neutron interferometer built from two separate crystals rather than one could lead to more advanced measurements of quantum effects, including in gravitational fields. Developed by ...

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