Mike Marcum wasn’t a scientist. Just a guy with a dream — and a backyard full of salvaged parts. But when his homemade machine opened a swirling vortex, something strange happened. Objects disappeared ...

Researchers demonstrated a new method of cooling trapped ions using chip-based systems, which could enable more stable and ...

From hundreds of miles above Earth, the brutal polar vortex that gripped the Great Lakes turned into something strangely ...

Magnon frequency combs may make it possible to link and interact with a wide range of physical systems, opening new pathways ...

Remarkably, these experiments revealed that molybdenum ditelluride can exhibit superconductivity and magnetism at the same ...

Shapiro steps – a series of abrupt jumps in the voltage–current characteristic of a Josephson junction that is exposed to microwave radiation – have been observed for the first time in ultracold gases ...

Artistic illustration of Floquet-engineered magnons: Using time as a resource, a static magnetic vortex evolves into a ...

Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world. This is how countless films and stories describe it, but scientists have always ...