To build faster and more energy-efficient computers, researchers need to understand nanoscale magnetic materials. But looking ...

Quantum particles can move between two locations through a process called tunneling. However, what ...

Physics is supposed to be predictable. Drop a ball, and gravity pulls it down. Heat water, and it boils. Light travels in straight lines. Yet throughout history, scientists have encountered ...

Physicists are always searching for new theories to improve our understanding of the universe and resolve big unanswered questions. But there's a problem. How do you search for undiscovered forces or ...

Using a hybrid qubit–oscillator trapped-ion processor, physicists have simulated a Z2 lattice gauge theory and directly ...

A recent experiment points the way toward making the intense, energetic beams of positrons needed for next-generation electron–positron colliders. An artist’s conception of a detector harvesting ...

Dark matter search: Team co-leader Christopher Tunnell is an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University. (Courtesy: Jeff Fitlow/Rice) A tiny neodymium particle suspended inside a ...

University of Toronto-led physicists have shown that hidden octupolar magnetic order leaves a detectable handedness signature ...

A team of physicists and engineers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory built a twisting fusion reactor known as a stellarator that uses permanent magnets, showcasing a potentially cost-effective ...

An isolated magnet’s intrinsic angular momentum induces gyroscopic motion, an observation that could lead to ultrasensitive magnetometers. Spin around. The magnetic moment (orange arrow) of a ...

A soft x-ray magnetic imaging technique makes possible the study of a wide range of magnetic materials. Understanding magnets’ nanoscale structures is critical to developing magnetic materials for ...