Quantum computers have the potential to speed up computation, help design new medicines, break codes, and discover exotic new materials—but...
The deep ocean can often look like a real-life snow globe. As organic particles from plant and animal matter on...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
A rare and bewildering intermediate between crystal and glass can be the most stable arrangement for some combinations of atoms,...
A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has emitted a series of bizarre signals that defy the current understanding of particle...
A new platform for engineering chiral electron pathways offers potential fresh insights into a quantum phenomenon discovered by chemists—and exemplifies...
Color, as the way light’s wavelength is perceived by the human eye, goes beyond a simple aesthetic element, containing important...
MIT physicists have demonstrated a new form of magnetism that could one day be harnessed to build faster, denser, and...
Researchers have published the demonstration of a fully-integrated single-chip microwave photonics system, combining optical and microwave signal processing on a...
Quantum materials exhibit remarkable emergent properties when they are excited by external sources. However, these excited states decay rapidly once...
In a study by TU Wien and FU Berlin, researchers have measured what happens when quantum physical information is lost....
Everything in nature has a geometric pattern—from the tiger’s stripes and spirals in flowers to the unique fingerprints of each...
