A team of physicists, including University of Massachusetts assistant professor Tigran Sedrakyan, recently announced in the journal Nature that they...
Nearly 5,000 kilometers above the sun’s surface lies a century-old question for solar physicists—how are temperatures in the star’s upper...
Despite steady improvements in quantum computers, they’re still noisy and error-prone, which leads to questionable or wrong answers. Scientists predict...
At the time of the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ago, every particle of matter is thought to have been...
by Shao Dingfu, Zhao Weiwei, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences A group of physicists at Hefei...
Findings published in Nature settle the dispute: phonons can be chiral. This fundamental concept, discovered using circular X-ray light, sees...
Imagine the possibility of life forms on other planets that don’t resemble any on Earth. What might they look like,...
David Smith, a retired print technician from the north of England, was pursuing his hobby of looking for interesting shapes...
One of the most high-profile mysteries in physics today is what scientists refer to as the “Strong CP Problem.” Stemming...
Quantum computing uses the principles of quantum mechanics to encode and elaborate data, meaning that it could one day solve...
Take a lattice—a flat section of a grid of uniform cells, like a window screen or a honeycomb—and lay another,...
Since axions were first predicted by theory nearly half a century ago, researchers have hunted for proof of the elusive...
