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

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

An extraordinary event consistent with a neutrino with an estimated energy of about 220 PeV (220 x 1015 electron volts or 220 ...

One major category of the next generation of energy-efficient microelectronic devices and information processing technologies ...

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

Enter relativistic electron beams made up of electrons ... by] time — so to get a given amount of energy from a beam, you either need very high power or you need to stay in the beam a long ...

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

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a highly sensitive sensor ...

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

Scientists calculate that the neutrino carried an energy ... electron. There’s one key difference, however: a muon’s mass is some 200 times greater than that of an electron. This high mass ...