New work could help design electronic devices in which heat can be guided in certain directions, minimizing heat loss ...

Jiggling superfluid An artist’s depiction of a superfluid wave propagating through a layered superconductor. (Courtesy: ...

Cryptography pioneers Charles Bennett (left) and Gilles Brassard introduced the BB84 protocol the uses the principles of ...

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If you’ve ever felt a shock after rubbing your hair with a balloon or shuffling across a carpet, you’ll know that static electricity can be a real pain. But for the scientists who study it, the pain ...

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Physicists in China have demonstrated that a structure called an optical metasurface can individually trap up to 78,400 ...

Katherine Courtney and Alice Gorman talk to Margaret Harris about the danger of space debris – and what we need to do about it Jettisoned junk A pallet of old batteries released into space from the ...

Strategic recruitment of international talent is helping Denmark establish itself as a research powerhouse in quantum science and technology Shared purpose Maria Cerdà Sevilla and her colleagues at ...

Physicists in the US and Taiwan have performed new experiments that verify long-standing theoretical predictions of how long-range magnetic order can ...

Physicists at Columbia University in the US say they may have found evidence for a phenomenon in which a superfluid suddenly stops flowing inside a solid-state material. If confirmed, the finding – ...

Integrating metamaterials into radiofrequency antennas improves image sharpness and enables faster data acquisition using ...