Physicists in China have unveiled new clues to the origins of high-temperature superconductivity in an iron-based material just a single unit-cell thick. Led by Qi-Kun Xue and Lili Wang at Tsinghua ...

In the strange world of quantum physics, even the tiniest tweak can unlock outsized rewards.

A subtle twist between atomically thin magnetic layers can generate unexpectedly large and complex spin structures.

Roughly 270 years ago, Dr. Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost from Germany observed a peculiar behavior of water droplets on heated metal surfaces. In his manuscript, "A Tract About Some Qualities of Common ...

What links the Leidenfrost effect and sustainable energy storage systems? In a study recently published in Small, a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research ...

The collaboration of TU Wien with research groups in China has resulted in a crucial building block for a new kind of quantum computer: The realization of a novel type of quantum logic gate makes it ...

Researchers have taken a significant step to make quantum computers multi-dimensional. Classical computer only ...

Physicist Paul Davies looks back at the past century of quantum mechanics—the most disruptive theory in the history of modern science.

A pair of photons enters an optical maze, and sometimes they leave as something new. Not new in the everyday sense, since both were still photons when they came out.

Looming behind Regenstein Library is a bronze, mushroom cloud–shaped sculpture—Henry Moore’s Nuclear Energy. Installed in 1967, it now seems like an inconspicuous part of the campus landscape. In ...

In 1949, the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb years ahead of Western expectations. The achievement resulted from an intense domestic scientific effort supported by intelligence gathered ...