Physicists at the University of Queensland have shed light upon how tiny whirlpools (vortices) get stuck to obstacles in superfluids....
Technologies that take advantage of novel quantum mechanical behaviors are likely to become commonplace in the near future. These may...
A Rice University-led study is forcing physicists to rethink superconductivity in uranium ditelluride, an A-list material in the worldwide race...
Scientists in Switzerland and Germany have achieved efficient electron-beam modulation using integrated photonics—circuits that guide light on a chip. The...
The growing interest in deep-space exploration has sparked the need for powerful long-lived rocket systems to drive spacecraft through the...
We can test the quality and freshness of fruits and vegetables with our fingers, and even industrial robots have been...
A magnetic field can be used to switch nanolasers on and off, shows new research from Aalto University. The physics...
In collaboration with an international team of researchers, Michigan State University (MSU) has helped create the world’s lightest version—or isotope—of...
The change between singlet and triplet states of electron pairs in charge-separated states plays an important role in nature. Presumably,...
If you ask a physicist like me to explain how the world works, my lazy answer might be: “It follows...
Non-dimensional numbers may sound like a scary, incomprehensible term reserved for scientists in a laboratory, but you have more experience...
Which factors determine how fast a quantum computer can perform its calculations? Physicists at the University of Bonn and the...
