World’s quickest laser pulse can track electrons in slow motion

The race to produce ever-faster laser pulses has set a new record, and it could lead to breakthroughs in our understanding of atom-level physics. A team at ETH Zurich has shortened an X-ray pulse to just 43 attoseconds (10-18 seconds), which is quick...

Australians researchers have built a better qubit

Qubits, the unit of information used by quantum computers, make use of a phenomenon known as "superposition" wherein they can exist in two separate quantum states simultaneously. Theoretically, they'd enable computers to perform a variety of tasks fa...

New Research Makes Spintronics Better


Scientists trying to improve the semiconductors that power our electronic devices have focused on a technology called spintronics as one especially promising area of research. Unlike conventional...

Scientist Create New Most Accurate Atomic Clock


Forget the Apple Watch. There is a new atomic clock that will not show the wrong time for about 15 billion years. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed a...