Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In 1934, two American physicists theorized that if one could make ...

Physicists from London’s Imperial College may have stumbled across a way of testing the Breit-Wheeler process, which could lead to a very basic Star Trek replicator. So far, humanity has done a pretty ...

Scientists have worked out an easy way of turning light into matter, a process thought to be impossible when first proposed 80 years ago. The proposed experiment would recreate events that occurred in ...

Scientists at Imperial College London are attempting to use powerful lasers turn light into matter, potentially proving the 84-year-old theory known as the Breit-Wheeler process. According to this ...

Recent advances in laser technology have enabled the exploration of previously inaccessible regimes where electrons interact with ultra-intense electromagnetic fields. These interactions drive ...

Nuclear scientists have used a powerful particle accelerator to create matter directly from collisions of light. Scientists predicted this process in the 1930s, but it has never been achieved in a ...

Scientists are on the brink of turning light into matter—a process first theorized in 1934 but then described by the very men behind the idea as "hopeless to try." The subatomic particles the Imperial ...