Goodbye Plastic? Scientists Create New Supermaterial That Could Transform Modern Manufacturing
A new study in Nature Communications reports the development of an innovative, scalable approach to engineer bacterial cellulose…
Physicists Observe Strange Quantum Rotation Effect That Defies Intuition
Like on a Ferris wheel, a powerful terahertz laser drives the atoms of a crystal along precise circular…
All-optical control of antiferromagnetic domains via an inverse optical magnetoelectric effect
Kimel, A. V. & Li, M. Writing magnetic memory with ultrashort light pulses. Nat. Rev. Mater. 4, 189–200…
Scientists Discover “Hidden” Materials That Could Transform Clean Energy and Batteries
By capturing normally unseen intermediate stages during heating, scientists discovered new materials with unusual properties that could influence…
Scientists Revive Ancient Chemistry Trick To Engineer Next-Generation Glass
New research shows that carefully chosen chemical additives can dramatically change the behavior of MOF glasses, helping scientists…
Tunable polaritonic topologies generated by non-local photonic modes
Topology provides a foundational framework for understanding a wide range of natural phenomena1,2,3. Among its key manifestations are…
Physicists Solve Major Challenge in Quantum Synchronization
An artistic representation of nonreciprocal quantum synchronization. RIKEN researchers have proposed a novel approach for the nonreciprocal quantum…
Scientists Discover a New Way To Control Metals at the Atomic Scale
A new study demonstrates that manipulating atomic-scale interfaces can significantly change how a metal behaves electronically. Credit: Stock…
Scientists Create “Quantum Sound” Device That Works Near Absolute Zero
A new ultra-cold device developed at McGill University can generate controlled sound-like quantum vibrations known as phonons. The…
New quantum material switches superconductivity back on at 70 Tesla
Scientists in Austria have finally uncovered the reason why a strange uranium-based superconductor appears to come back to…
Quantum Metallurgy: Electron Crystals Deform and Melt
Photos Key takeaways Electron crystals, also called charge density waves, are clusters of electrons neatly arranged with uniform…
Scientists Uncover Hidden Property of Light That Twists Matter Sideways
Light is known to exert tiny forces, but measuring them at the nanoscale has remained a major challenge.…