Physics

For as long as people have dreamed about time machines, physics has wrestled with a strange mismatch between…

What if outer space isn’t empty, but behaves like a thick, slow-moving fluid? A new study suggests just…

Fiebig, M., Lottermoser, T., Meier, D. & Trassin, M. The evolution of multiferroics. Nat. Rev. Mater. 1, 1–14…

Astronomers have observed the effects of a rapidly spinning black hole twisting the motion of matter around it,…

In the quest for room-temperature superconductivity, an international team of physicists has uncovered a link between magnetism and…

image: The illustration depicts an intense laser field (red wave) interacting with Deuterium and Tritium nuclei. By modifying…

image: The size of the spin crucially affects how the system behaves. At spin-1/2, fully quantum spins pair…

A promising—and powerful—new engineering breakthrough could soon enable researchers to alter the properties of materials by exciting electrons…

Quantum and classical model The theory of Talbot–Lau interference is best formulated in phase space using the Wigner–Weyl…

The obscure physics theory that helped Chinese science emerge from the shadows – Physics World Skip to main…

A team of researchers has identified a mechanism that could lower the extreme temperature requirements for controlled nuclear…

There is no such thing as a “quantum un-do button” in nature, and that limitation could explain why your coffee cools down but never reheats on its own