![Harold Hwang and Tony Heinz](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2024-05/nas_composite_may2024.jpg?h=945de6ff&itok=tC5MLtBT)
![Against a black background, thin, glowing red wires at top impinge on the hexagonal surface of a translucent mass. Small white dots travel along the edges of the surface in two directions. Within the mass, two orange cones meet at their tips.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/probing_topological_high_harmonics_artwork_la_final.jpg?h=5a5fc591&itok=NawlRLkX)
Researchers at the Stanford PULSE Institute watch ultrafast particle motions and chemical reactions to get a deeper understanding of matter in all its forms. Soon we’ll be able to watch even speedier electron movements that underlie all of chemistry, technology and life.