The world is never really at rest. Even in a vacuum near ultracold temperatures where all classical motion should come to a halt, you'll find quantum fluctuations. In thin, two-dimensional materials, ...

In many quantum materials—materials with unusual electrical and magnetic properties driven by quantum mechanical effects—electrons can organize themselves into Landau levels. Landau levels are ...

New discoveries of Stone Age symbols in Germany could push back the history of writing by over 30,000 years, potentially ...

The history of science is never neutral. How Ukrainian identity in physics was erased over decades and why the «Soviet school» is not the same as the «Russian school.» We are bringing the names of ...

In a post on the social media platform X on Wednesday, Gerber weighed in on reports that the ‘X' ticker symbol has been available now that the United States Steel Corporation, which used the X symbol, ...

On Wednesday morning, well before the school run started, Mary Granlund was attempting to coax her dog outside for a brief walk in negative-two-degree weather, and her phone was already pinging with ...

Collaborative research demonstrates unprecedented degree of control over propagation of light waves to perform machine-learning computations Figure 1: (A) The fundamental unit of an artificial neural ...

John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton received the Nobel Prize in physics on Oct. 8, 2024, for their research on machine ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. Retired UC Berkeley physics professor John Clarke and two former colleagues were awarded the Nobel Prize ...

I recently wrote a book, The Age of Change, about how youth-dominated societies that have become more urbanized and digitally connected are ripe for political upheaval. Madagascar is the latest ...

Modern cellphones are also built on the work of today’s winners from 40 years ago. Modern cellphones are also built on the work of today’s winners from 40 years ago. is a NYC-based AI reporter and is ...

Founded by a co-creator of ChatGPT, Periodic Labs aims to build artificial intelligence that can accelerate discoveries in physics, chemistry and other fields. Ekin Dogus Cubuk, left, and Liam Fedus ...