To magnetize an iron nail, one simply has to stroke its surface several times with a bar magnet. Yet, there...
The shimmering green, red and purple curtains of the northern and southern lights—the auroras—may be the best-known phenomena lighting up...
Physicists at RIKEN have developed an electronic device that hosts unusual states of matter, which could one day be useful...
For the first time, a team of Princeton physicists have been able to link together individual molecules into special states...
Physicists at the University of Regensburg have found a way to manipulate the quantum state of individual electrons using a...
A radical theory that consistently unifies gravity and quantum mechanics while preserving Einstein’s classical concept of spacetime has been announced...
A collaboration between quantum physicists and astrophysicists, led by Francesca Ferlaino and Massimo Mannarelli, has achieved a significant breakthrough in...
For about 20 years, Caltech Professor of Applied Physics Paul Bellan and his group have been creating magnetically accelerated jets...
Using lasers rather than scalpels and saws has many benefits in surgery. Yet they are only used in isolated cases....
If you hadn’t heard about superconductors before 2023, odds are you know what they are now. Researchers raised eyebrows early...
In a new study published in Optica, researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have used doughnut-shaped beams of light...
An international research team led by quantum physicist Markus Arndt (University of Vienna) has achieved a breakthrough in the detection...
