With the help of carbon nanotubes and laser light, this machine can create immensely powerful X-rays on a microchip, ...

Aerosols are tiny particles of liquid or solid material that drift through the air and are constantly present in our surroundings. Some are big enough to spot, like spring pollen, while others, ...

A slender glass fiber no thicker than a human hair placed across a particle beam could improve accelerator monitoring. A team ...

This engine doesn’t power anything in particular except our deeper understanding of thermodynamics as well microscopic processes within our bodies.

In January, a team led by Jim Schuck, professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia Engineering, developed a method for ...

With powerful new colliders crashing particles at ever-increasing energies, even more daughter particles are produced. The ...