The discovery of superconductivity more than a century ago has significantly changed our world. The story began in 1911 when...
A significant breakthrough has been achieved by quantum physicists from Dresden and Würzburg. They’ve created a semiconductor device where exceptional...
When a high-energy photon strikes a proton, secondary particles diverge in a way that indicates that the inside of the...
Several recent experiments identify unusual patterns in particle diffusion, hinting at some underlying complexity in the process which physicists have...
Nearly 70 years after the launch of the first satellite, we still have more questions than answers about space. But...
Scientists at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, have found a powerful new way to program optical circuits that are critical...
We tend to separate the brain and the muscle—the brain does the thinking; the muscle does the doing. The brain...
A study by physicists and neuroscientists from the University of Chicago, Harvard and Yale describes how connectivity among neurons comes...
Just like a book can’t be judged by its cover, a material can’t always be judged by its surface. But,...
Within atomic and laser physics communities, scientist John “Jan” Hall has become a key figure in the history of laser...
The equations that describe physical systems often assume that measurable features of the system—temperature or chemical potential, for example—can be...
Complexity of biological forms has fascinated humankind over the years. Different species of plants have different leaf shapes. Have you...
