Using sheets of light to corral waves of ultracold atoms, researchers have created an experimental platform for studying the event horizons of black holes. Making waves. Researchers have created a ...

Metals typically rely on electrons to transport heat, but one has been identified that conducts heat efficiently through both electrons and phonons. Materials that have high thermal conductivity ...

A new formalism yields the quantities that characterize a conventional superconductor without adjustable parameters. In a typical superconductor, 휉 and 휆 are tens to hundreds of nanometers, distances ...

Researchers have used radio observations of rapidly spinning neutron stars to search for signals from supermassive black hole pairs at the dawn of galaxy formation. In our lifetimes, an amazing thing ...

The state of a superconducting qubit after a logical operation is determined by a device called a readout resonator. Unfortunately, resonators typically struggle to consistently read their qubits ...

The Rubin Observatory has spotted a distant object that could join Pluto in the Solar System’s exclusive family of dwarf ...

Researchers have proposed that structural disorder can be harnessed to generate coherent, directional light from the passage of a charged particle. When a charged particle such as a relativistic ...

A single, real fish (left) swims in a virtual-reality bowl, where virtual fish are projected onto the walls. The sizes of the virtual fish are enlarged to make them appear closer to the real fish. A ...

In a nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE), an electric field applied in the plane of a material induces a transverse voltage that depends nonlinearly on the field. This voltage can scale with either an odd or ...