Individual locomotor bias drives counterclockwise motion in pedestrian crowds
In this section, we present our results on the statistical properties of motion observed in each experiment. By…
What Makes Us Human: Making as searching
“What Makes Us Human?” is a biweekly column in which Emi Sakamoto ’28 investigates the interdisciplinary criteria whereby…
Exceptional deficiency of non-Hermitian systems
Bender, C. M. & Boettcher, S. Real spectra in non-Hermitian Hamiltonians having PT symmetry. Phys. Rev. Lett. 80,…
Batteries Are Stuck In The 1990s Because Solid-State Batteries Keep Short-Circuiting
The electric car industry is held back by reliance on conventional energy. Despite spending trillions of dollars on…
Static electricity is a big mystery — a jolt of fresh research could help to solve it
Static electricity is so commonplace that it can come across as simple. Rub a balloon against your head,…
Squeaking at soft–rigid frictional interfaces
Branch, J. Why are basketball games so squeaky? Consider the spiny lobster. The New York Times (17 March…
YouTuber captures ‘lightning in a bottle’ using particle accelerator
The phrase “lightning in a bottle” is usually used as a metaphor for something rare or impossible to…
Electrically tuning photonic topological quasiparticles in synthetic two-level system
Skyrme, T. H. R. A non-linear field theory. Proc. R. Soc. A 260, 127–138 (1961). ADS MathSciNet Google…
DARPA is Exploring Physics’ Strangest New Frontier to Develop the Next Generation of Defense Technology
In an effort to reshape the foundations of military computing and electronics, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency…
A magnetically levitated conducting rotor with ultra-low rotational damping circumventing eddy loss
Detection and fabrication of diamagnetically levitated disk We magnetically levitate a diamagnetic, conductive pyrolytic graphite (PG) disk within…
These tiny flyers levitate on the Sun’s heat alone
Devices (artist’s illustration) kept aloft by sunlight could take sensors into an understudied layer of the atmosphere.Credit: Schafer…