Physicists Made 10,000 Particles Defy Newton’s Third Law for an Hour. Here’s How
Some laws of physics are so fundamental that they’ve served as the baseline for science for centuries. But…
Scientists Discover Extreme Acceleration Inside a Nuclear Fireball
Two Lorentz-contracted nuclei (left and right) collide and ignite a fireball that expands violently outward. Credit: Xu-Guang Huang…
Scientists Discover Two Competing Memories in Matter
Device used to stir and rock samples of a suspension of small particles in viscous liquid. New research…
Scientists Recreate a Quantum Mystery in a Water Tank – and Discover Something Completely New
OIST PhD student Aditya Singh generates and observes surface waves that act as a classical analogue to quantum…
The Poop Emoji Got Gravity Right, Physicists Find
The poop emoji accurately captures the typical poop shape in nature formed by the downward pull of gravity.…
NASA and Rocket Lab May Figure Out In-Space Fueling Before SpaceX Does
Space is hard. Tasks as simple as “filling up the tank” here on Earth become complex exercises in…
Capillary Leidenfrost effect | Nature Physics
Leidenfrost, J. G. & Aquae, D. Communis Nonnullis Qualitatibus Tractatus (Ovenius, 1756). Dhillon, N. S., Buongiorno, J. &…
The hydrodynamic torque dipole from rotary bacterial flagella powers symmetric discs
Bacteria are torque dipoles and swim in circles As our observations were performed near the bottom of a…
On-chip phased interdigital metamaterials enable versatile manipulation of surface acoustic waves, microfluids, and micro/nano-objects
On-chip phased interdigital metamaterials (PIMs) for manipulating surface acoustic waves (SAWs), fluids, and micro/nano-objects The PIM is inspired…
Scientists Reveal the Fluid Physics Behind Why Sighs Feel So Damn Good
The human body works in complex ways—sometimes, certain motions are so small that it’s easy to miss how…
Kirigami-inspired parachutes with programmable reconfiguration
Zhai, Z., Wu, L. & Jiang, H. Mechanical metamaterials based on origami and kirigami. Appl. Phys. Rev. 8,…
How Much Does a Single Cell Weigh? The Brilliant Physics Trick of Weighing Something Less Than a Trillionth of a Gram
AI-generated image. Credit: Midjourney/ZME Science. How much does life weigh? It sounds like a strange question, but to…