Every summer, our cities burn energy to keep us cool. The same happens in winter with the increasing demand for heating.

For two centuries, students have learned that heat flows and engines work according to rigid limits that no machine can beat.

Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have, for the first time, demonstrated a technique that synchronizes ultrashort ...

One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists to understand for the first time how and why certain materials conduct ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have shown, for the first time with very high time and spatial resolution, that electrons in ...

Scientists have found a way to see ultrafast molecular interactions inside liquids using an extreme laser technique once ...

Scientists have beamed a laser into the sky, which was visible from miles around. The spectacle, known as The Beam, marked ...

Electronics keep shrinking, but silicon is starting to run into physical limits. To go smaller, researchers are turning to ...