Scientists have detected cosmic waves that sound like birds chirping in an unexpected place. These bursts of plasma, called chorus...
Molecules haven’t been used in quantum computing, even though they have the potential to make the ultra-high-speed experimental technology even...
Topological insulators (TIs) are among the hottest topics in condensed matter physics today. They’re a bit strange: Their surfaces conduct...
Light at the blue end of the rainbow is scattered more efficiently than the other colors. shomos uddin/Moment via Getty...
During the last century, biologists have extensively studied Drosophila melanogaster, the common household fruit fly. It’s become one of the...
The next generation of atomic clocks “ticks” with the frequency of a laser. This is about 100,000 times faster than...
A dry material makes a great fire starter, and a soft material lends itself to a sweater. Batteries require materials...
Our data-driven world demands more—more capacity, more efficiency, more computing power. To meet society’s insatiable need for electronic speed, physicists...
A new analysis of data from the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveals fresh evidence that...
At extremely high densities, quarks are expected to form pairs, as electrons do in a superconductor. This high-density quark behavior...
Physicists have spent more than a century measuring and making sense of the strange ways that photons, electrons, and other...
A study from Oxford University has uncovered why the deep neural networks (DNNs) that power modern artificial intelligence are so...
