A visualization of a photon, courtesy of researchers at the University of Birmingham. (Benjamin Yuen/University of Birmingham ...

Quantum materials could transform technologies ranging from powerful computers and ultrasecure communications to advanced ...

Scientists have discovered a surprisingly simple way to make tiny objects spin without using electricity, magnets, chemicals ...

On an infrared camera, a warm object normally stands out clearly against its cooler surroundings. Researchers at the ...

Researchers have decoupled heat absorption from heat emission. (Qing et al., Laser Photonics Rev., 2026) There are certain ...

In its second antimatter breakthrough this month, CERN announced it successfully created the first-ever antimatter qubit, paving the way to even weirder quantum experiments. Reading time 3 minutes ...

Solitonic waves—waves that keep their shape and direction of motion for a long time—have intrigued physicists for almost two centuries. In real-world circumstances, these waves eventually die out due ...

Quantum mechanics is full of states that seem to defy ordinary sense, but one of its strangest ideas has usually been built from fairly familiar pieces. At the University of Oxford, physicists have ...

EurekAlert!—In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used liquid crystals, the same materials that are in your phone display, to create such a clock—or, at least, as close ...