Category: Physics

In the quest to design the next generation of quantum technologies, scientists have long dreamed of controlling how electrons move,…

In the quest to control light at its most fundamental level, physicists have long sought ways to harness its hidden…

In the strange world of quantum physics, some of the most fascinating states of matter cannot be understood by looking…

Imagine a crystal that breathes — not metaphorically, but literally. A team of researchers from Korea and Japan has unveiled…

Pluck a guitar string and it shivers with sound, each vibration smaller than the last until silence settles in. Or…

For centuries, chemistry has been bound—quite literally—by distance. Atoms and molecules, the tiny building blocks of everything we see, touch,…

For decades, computers have relied on the language of bits — those tiny electronic switches that can be either 0…

For decades, skyrmions — swirling, particle-like configurations stabilized by topological rules — have fascinated physicists. Born from high-energy physics theory…

For more than a century, Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night has stirred the imagination with its spiraling skies and…

Light has always been one of nature’s most elusive forces — dazzling, fast, and notoriously difficult to control. For decades,…

In a quiet laboratory in Zurich, three impossibly tiny glass spheres hang in the air, stacked like a tower of…

In a leap forward for our understanding of the quantum world, a team of theoretical physicists has uncovered universal patterns…

In the deepest freeze the universe can offer—absolute zero—you might imagine everything would come to a perfect standstill. No motion,…

For decades, physicists and engineers have dreamed of building a quantum computer powerful enough to crack problems that no classical…

Albert Einstein once scoffed at quantum entanglement, famously dismissing it as “spooky action at a distance.” He was deeply unsettled…

For decades, astronomers and physicists have stared into the abyss, trying to answer one of the most haunting questions in…

In a world where physics often feels settled and mapped, occasionally a discovery rips through the expected, leaving even seasoned…

In the everyday world, beams of light pass through each other like ghosts. Shine two flashlights so their beams overlap,…

In a groundbreaking development that blurs the line between sight and sound, researchers from the Beijing Institute of Technology have…

In the vast and elegant architecture of the Standard Model of particle physics—the blueprint of how the universe works—most things…

In a discovery that blurs the line between machine learning and natural law, physicists at Emory University have harnessed artificial…

Scientists have long known that polar liquids—like water and alcohols—contain molecules that jostle, twist, and align under the influence of…