New global study shows freshwater is disappearing at alarming rates
Earth’s continents have experienced unprecedented freshwater loss since 2002, driven by climate change, unsustainable groundwater use and extreme…
Supercomputer simulation clarifies how turbulent boundary layers evolve at moderate Reynolds numbers
After a certain point in the development of a turbulent flow—for example, as air moves over a wing…
Beta-carotene keeps enzymes active under heavy load
Preparation of a reading device in the laboratory. Credit: Magdalena Jooss Enzymes are vital to metabolism and drive…
Researchers uncover a topological excitonic insulator with a tunable momentum order
Artistic illustration of a topological exciton insulator: Excitons condense in the bulk of the material, forming a collective…
Physicists identify antiferromagnet with high heat-to-electricity conversion efficiency
The chemical structure of the compensated antiferromagnet. Gold spheres represent cobalt atoms, blue spheres are niobium atoms, and…
New theory unifies quantum and relativistic effects in electron spin-lattice interactions
Credit: Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/q46t-hck1 “God does not play dice.” This famous remark by Albert Einstein…
Physicists discover new state of quantum matter
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered a new state of quantum…
Spin waves observed directly at nanoscale for first time
Artistic depiction of a spin wave. Credit: Demie Kepaptsoglou. For the first time, spin waves, also known as…
Metasurfaces could be the next quantum information processors
Artistic representation of metasurface quantum graphs. Credit: Joshua Mornhinweg In the race toward practical quantum computers and networks,…
First direct images reveal atomic thermal vibrations in quantum materials
Illustration of experimental measurement of thermal vibrations in a single atom. Credit: Yichao Zhang et al. Researchers investigating…