A novel technique for enhancing optical spring that utilizes the Kerr effect to improve the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors (GWD...

Rice University theorist Peter Wolynes and collaborators at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have shown that molecules can be as ...

Photo Credit: Vendi Jukic Buca A breakthrough in theoretical physics is an important step towards predicting the behavior of the fundamental...

Schematic visualization of heat flows in rock cracks. Illustration Credit: Christof Mast Life is complicated. What is true for our everyday ...

Schematic of poly[2]catenane slip tumbling and bonded ring gradient tumbling. Illustration Credit: Reyhaneh A. Farimani An international res...

Professor Erwin Frey Photo Credit: © Benjamin Asher / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Complex systems in nature, like their synthetic...

Time dependent interference fringes from the ultrafast Kapitza Dirac Effect. An electron wave packet is exposed to two counterpropagating ul...

Images of the 3D printed “Frankenstein design” collimator show the “scars” where the individual parts are joined, which are clearly visible ...

Christopher Simon holds a crystal of lithium holmium yttrium fluoride. Photo Credit: Lance Hayashida/Caltech Iron screws and other so-called...

Nanoceramics are strong because they are made under high pressure. Photo Credit: Anna Marinovich Scientists from the Ural Federal University...

A conceptual illustration of single-shot laser processing by an annular-shaped radially polarized beam, focused on the back surface of a gla...

Tiantian Zhang and Maximilian Prüfer discussing measurements in the quantum lab Photo Credit: Courtesy of Technische Universität Wien Quantu...

(Left) The new dark matter detection proposal looks for frequent interactions between nuclei in a detector and low-energy dark matter that m...

Bob Webster, deputy Laboratory director for Weapons (far right); Mike Furlanetto, Scorpius Advanced Sources and Detection project director (...

The simulation shows the shape of the gas cloud on the left and the vortices, or regions of rapidly rotating flow, on the right. Each ring r...

Through a combination of modeling and state-of-the-art experimental techniques, researchers shed light on the complex behavior of phonons in...

A miassite crystal grown by Paul Canfield. Photo Credit: Paul Canfield Scientists from Ames National Laboratory have identified the first un...

Tobias Vogl investigates single photon sources in 2D materials in an experimental setup Photo Credit: Jens Meyer / University of Jena Throug...

Hongtao Hu and Vinzenz Stummer Photo Credit: Courtesy of Technische Universität Wien A new spectroscopy method has been developed at TU Wien...

Interactions between molecules that are not equal and opposite, a seeming violation of Newton’s third law of motion, can occur naturally acc...