A new technique for generating solid fibers from a liquid jet is easier to model—and thus easier to control—than past methods ...

The shape of gold nanostructures changes depending on how they are imaged.

Researchers have proposed that long-range molecular dipole correlations alter water’s electrical properties when it’s ...

Researchers observe atoms trapped in an optical lattice mimicking particles created in a strong electric field.

The discovery of a thermal version of the Hall effect in common semiconductors challenges our understanding of how magnetic ...

Pairs of photons provide a gentle way to measure the impact of a molecule’s environment on its ultrafast dynamics.

A tabletop experiment using a classical water vortex supports a decades-old theory describing the decay of turbulence in quantum fluids. Figure 1: A numerical simulation of a quantized vortex in a ...

Simplified models of systems with fast and slow dynamics can miss a narrow region of phase space—a “singular funnel”—leading ...

A hallmark property of unconventional superconductivity has been discovered in a type-I superconductor, whereas it’s normally observed only in type-II materials. Superconductors can be broadly ...

A decades-old neutrino mystery might be solved not by undiscovered physics but by improved calculations. For more than 30 years, scientists have found that roughly 20% fewer electron neutrinos are ...

Researchers have gained access to the rich physics of a landmark model magnet by assembling a crystal out of organic magnetic molecules. The S = 1 Haldane chain is an infinite 1D string of integer ...

A newly predicted effect should provide a clean way to distinguish between a Bose-Einstein condensate of quasiparticles called excitons and a more mundane collection of these particles. In some ...