Having good neighbors can be very valuable—even in the atomic world. A team of Amsterdam physicists was able to determine an ...

Only one side of a silver crystal has the right structure to trigger ice formation, revealing how these particles help clouds ...

For the first time, researchers have made niobium sulfide metallic nanotubes with stable, predictable properties, a ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

Scientists have built a 98-qubit machine that they say performs better than any other quantum computer in the world. They've ...

A new fabrication method guides liquid gallium beneath graphene after lithography, producing durable superconducting devices ...

Two recent studies published in Nature and Science Advances explored quantum approaches that could improve the precision of ...

By turning diamond flaws into quantum sensors, scientists are uncovering new ways to measure reality with unprecedented precision.

Physicists have discovered how to make electrons “freeze” and “melt” into bizarre quantum patterns, forming a new kind of matter where solid and liquid coexist. Electricity drives nearly every aspect ...