Scientists have created a new kind of time crystal using sound waves to levitate tiny beads in mid-air. These particles ...
A large-scale fluid simulation tracking 100,000 particles as they settle through turbulent water has identified a previously ...
A breakthrough in theoretical physics is an important step towards predicting the behavior of the fundamental matter of which our world is built. It can be used to calculate systems of enormous ...
In physics, some waves behave in a surprising way: instead of spreading out and fading, they hold their shape as they travel ...
A team of researchers has developed an advanced form of a phonon laser capable of manipulating vibrations at the nanoscale ...
A team of physicists from the University at Buffalo has developed a user-friendly method that allows researchers to solve complex quantum problems, once thought to require massive supercomputers, on ...
A flame goes out, and something in the room shifts with it. Not because matter has vanished, but because a structure has ...
Can light behave like a whirlwind? It turns out it can—and such "optical tornadoes" have now been created in an extremely ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...
Scientists are exploring a new type of optical atomic clock based on ytterbium-173 ions that could help define the future standard for measuring time.