Decades-old mathematics may finally explain some of the “weird” features of matter: granular materials that sometimes behave like solids and other times flow like liquids. As strange as it sounds, …
The quest to generate more energy from fewer materials while avoiding burning more fossil fuels than the planet can sustain is leading to some creative ideas. Fusion records are being …
God doesn’t just roll dice, the vast casino of quantum physics may have more rooms than we think. In fact, there are countless more. Physicists from the University of California, …
friction mechanism. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2315214121 Microscopic cracks that form a sea of conical, jagged peaks dot the surface of a material called …
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a new strategy for seeking to generate electricity from fusion: combining two existing plasma management methods …
Image source: CC0 Public Domain Coffee beans in a jar and piles of rice or sand are examples of particulate matter: materials made up of large numbers of particles on …
Assistant Professor of Physics Matilda Backholm’s unique micropipette force sensor technology detects the tiny forces acting between superhydrophobic materials and water droplets.Image credit: Matilda Backholm/Aalto University Using a novel force …
Sketch of a trilobite Rydberg molecule. A Sketch of a Rydberg molecule. The coordinates of Rydberg electrons (blue) and ground-state atoms (green) relative to the Rydberg core (red) are indicated …
A team of Princeton University physicists has achieved a breakthrough in quantum mechanics by entangling single molecules. This research opens up new possibilities for quantum computing, simulation and sensing. The …
Quantum physics is so fundamentally strange that we need the hidden cat in the box thought experiment and the metaphor of a spinning coin to begin to understand its laws. …