Imagine a heavy book resting on a table. If you try to gently push the book across the table with the tip of your finger, it may first appear to remain motionless—it needs a lot more force to start ...

With the help of the world's most powerful X-ray laser, a research team has achieved an important breakthrough: Using the example of the pharmaceutically active substance 2-thiouracil, they applied a ...

The researchers used Coulomb excitation, a method where atomic nuclei are excited through electromagnetic interactions ...

Coulomb blockade is a phenomenon in which the flow of electrons through a nanostructure, such as a quantum dot or a single-electron transistor, is restricted due to the electrostatic repulsion between ...

The red star indicates the epicenter of the Maduo Earthquake. The focal mechanism is from the Global Centroid Moment Tensor database (GCMT). Green circles are aftershocks above M3 (https://news ...

Charge is a property of a body which experiences a force in an electric field. Charge is measured in coulombs (C). Since electrons are so small and one electron will not have much of an effect ...