Most people assume humans only have two brain hemispheres—but we actually have four brain hemispheres. There are two "big" hemispheres in the cerebrum that house the cerebral cortex and are commonly ...

Flow is an energized mental state that occurs when a person is totally focused and immersed in an activity and the challenge matches a person's level of skill. Being "in the zone" is another way of ...

Supersolids are a new form of quantum matter that has only recently been demonstrated. The state of matter can be produced artificially in ultracold, dipolar quantum gases. A team has now demonstrated ...

Helium nanodroplets offer a unique medium for realising and exploring quantum fluid behaviour at ultralow temperatures. These nanoscale clusters of helium atoms, which exist in a superfluid state ...

Three researchers won the Nobel Prize in Physics this morning for developing seminal theories that explain an important type of superconductivity and a related phenomenon known as superfluidity. Their ...

The 'sloshing' of a quantum fluid comprised of light and matter reveals superfluid properties. An Australian-led team of physicists have successfully created sloshing quantum liquids in a 'bucket' ...

Duke University researchers may have reached a milestone in physics by cooling and confining a gas of lithium-6 atoms into a kind of oscillating “jelly” exhibiting group behavior uncharacteristic of ...

Physicists have identified a new superfluid phase in a class of quantum systems that, until recently, looked too unstable and lossy to host such delicate order. Instead of destroying quantum coherence ...

(Nanowerk News) Matter that behaves like both a solid and a superfluid at the same time seems impossible. Yet, more than 50 years ago, physicists predicted that quantum mechanics allows such a state, ...