Sometimes, even the simplest things can set off a quantum phenomenon.

Neutron stars are ultra-dense remnants of massive stars that collapsed after supernova explosions and are made up mostly of ...

Physicists at NYU have discovered a new type of time crystal—an exotic state of matter whose particles rhythmically “tick” while levitating on sound waves.

At the smallest scales of nature, the rules of the world shift in ways that can feel unsettling and beautiful at the same ...

Acoustic tweezers use sound waves to create a potential-energy well that can hold an object in place – they are the acoustic ...

Dark matter is a type of matter that is predicted to make up most of the matter in the universe, yet it is very difficult to ...

A cluster of 7,000 sodium atoms has just been coaxed into behaving as a single, ghostly wave, stretching quantum weirdness into a realm that starts to look uncomfortably like everyday matter. Instead ...

Where there's water, there are waves. But what if you could bend water waves to your will to move floating objects? Scientists have now developed a technique to merge waves in a water tank to produce ...