Right now, you can probably just ask your smartphone to tell you the charge of a single electron—the fundamental unit of charge. (It has a magnitude of 1.6 x 10 –19 coulombs, the common unit for ...

Studies that test some physical property to an extreme precision are gaining in popularity these days because many physicists are intently looking for small chinks – too small for them to have noticed ...

The discovery could significantly reduce the production costs of fuels, chemicals, and materials. A research team from the ...

Nothing is more emblematic of an electron than its negative charge. It’s the trait that determines how the particle behaves in electromagnetic environments, such as a wire’s electric field and Earth’s ...

Ultrafast electron dynamics and charge migration describe the rapid movement and redistribution of electrons within molecules, processes that occur on attosecond to few-femtosecond timescales. Such ...

So how do you get an electron to float on top of helium? To find out, Ars spoke with Johannes Pollanen, the chief scientific officer of EeroQ, the company that accomplished the new work. He said that ...

A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering and the University of ...

A new technique could one day provide the most precise measurement yet of the roundness of an electron, scientists say. That measurement, in turn, could help scientists test extensions of the Standard ...

MIT scientists discover how to make batteries charge faster - Breakthrough paves way for next-generation EV batteries ...