Aspen’s Fourth of July celebrations this year included a shimmering ballet of hundreds of drones lighting up the night sky in a “Symphony of Freedom.” Programmed to fly in perfect formation, they ...

Efimov physics describes a counterintuitive quantum mechanical effect whereby three particles form a series of bound states, known as Efimov trimers, even when the two-body subsystems fail to bind.

In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have achieved the first experimental observation of a fragile-to-strong transition in deeply supercooled water, resolving a scientific puzzle ...

Collaborative research demonstrates unprecedented degree of control over propagation of light waves to perform machine-learning computations Figure 1: (A) The fundamental unit of an artificial neural ...

While many plans for quantum computers transmit data using the particles of light known as photons, researchers from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) ...

Adrian Bejan’s new book explores how natural laws of physics give rise to the tremendous amount of diversity seen in the ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

A study published in Nature Physics Jan. 14, co-led by Rice University’s Qimiao Si, brings together quantum criticality, where electrons fluctuate between different phases, and electronic topology, ...

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The challenge: the process seemed random and notoriously difficult to predict.