To honor the 100 th anniversary of quantum mechanics — a revolution in physics as profound as the theory of evolution was for ...

An exotic new approach could shrink kilometer-scale machines into table-top devices.

Despite its potential, electron beam propulsion faces significant challenges. Generating and maintaining a high-energy beam over interstellar distances requires unprecedented precision and stability.

Particle detectors play a crucial role in our understanding of the fundamental building blocks of the universe. They allow ...

Researchers have been working for decades to understand the architecture of the subatomic world. One of the knottier ...

The team made SNSPDs with different wire sizes and tested them with a beam of 120 GeV protons at Fermilab, which was the nearest facility equipped to carry out this experiment. These high-energy ...

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for a boost, just don't have the ability to scale to useful interstellar speeds ...

Researchers have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors (SNSPDs), originally designed for detecting ...

Researchers at Argonne have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors can also be used as highly accurate ...