A new study reveals that PtBi2, an otherwise ordinary-looking crystal, hosts an entirely new form of superconductivity confined to its top and bottom surfaces. Something unusual is happening inside ...

Some of the most important quantum effects powering today’s technology happen on scales that ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

Deep vertical holes and re-entrant features challenge the best metrology methods.

Observing the flow of time at the quantum scale reveals a puzzling energy phenomenon: the energy required to simply read the time astronomically exceeds that consumed by the device's ...

The Electric Factory Above Our Heads Thunderstorms often begin to develop early in the day when the sun heats the air near ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin pictured atoms as tiny knots in an invisible medium called the ether. That picture turned out to be wrong, since atoms are built ...

Electrons can be elusive, but Cornell researchers using a new computational method can now account for where they go—or don't ...

A new computational approach developed at the University of Chicago promises to shed light on some of the world's most ...

Listening to the "whispers" of electrons and crystals has lead to a quantum discovery with terahertz light that could help us ...

Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never ...