Researchers have used radio observations of rapidly spinning neutron stars to search for signals from supermassive black hole pairs at the dawn of galaxy formation.

The state of a superconducting qubit after a logical operation is determined by a device called a readout resonator. Unfortunately, resonators typically struggle to consistently read their qubits ...

The Rubin Observatory has spotted a distant object that could join Pluto in the Solar System’s exclusive family of dwarf planets. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has likely spotted a distant ...

In a nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE), an electric field applied in the plane of a material induces a transverse voltage that depends nonlinearly on the field. This voltage can scale with either an odd or ...

Flat bands harbor exotic electron physics. A new way of realizing them could make the physics more accessible.

Molecular “locks” that fit many “keys” may allow different plant mating strategies to coexist within a population of a single plant species. Figure 1: Many flowering plants like these petunias produce ...

Lab experiments provide new details about the charge-transfer process that occurs in ash clouds and other collections of particles. Electric volcano. Triboelectric charging caused by collisions of ash ...

Topological superconductors hold promise for fault-tolerant quantum computing, but isolating signatures of the desired topological states has proven an elusive goal. A new study of an iron-based ...

A device that stores a single positron and controls its quantum states could measure its magnetic moment with unprecedented precision, testing a symmetry principle central to quantum field theory.

Experiments show that bundling of individual strands of an important protein polymer can occur through capillary forces, not just through molecular binding. Separated at birth. The chromosomes (blue) ...