From experience, driving through the city center takes longer than covering the same distance on an open country road. After...
With a powerful X-ray beam technique, researchers explore what makes soft materials such as toothpaste and hair gel relax. The...
Spin is the intrinsic magnetic moment of a particle—an electron, for example. It is a fundamental magnitude, like mass and...
Trying to decipher all of the factors that influence the behavior of complex ecological communities can be a daunting task....
Physicists at EPFL have developed a formulation to solve the longstanding problem of electron self-interaction when studying polarons—quasiparticles produced by...
Jazz must swing—jazz musicians agree on that. However, even 100 years after the beginnings of jazz, it is still unclear...
Unhackable communications devices, high-precision GPS and high-resolution medical imaging all have something in common. These technologies – some under development...
Tiny particles are interconnected despite sometimes being thousands of kilometers apart—Albert Einstein called this “spooky action at a distance.” Something...
The 2022 Nobel Prize in physics recognized three scientists who made groundbreaking contributions in understanding one of the most mysterious...
American physicist John Clauser won the 2022 Nobel Prize for a groundbreaking experiment vindicating quantum mechanics—a fundamental theory governing the...
A highly efficient LED that is deadly to microbes and viruses but safe for people has been engineered by three...
This year’s physics Nobel prize was awarded Tuesday to three men for their work on a phenomenon called quantum entanglement,...
