A quantum state of matter has been made for the first time using “dipolar” molecules – molecules that have a positively charged end and a negatively charged end. It could help enhance our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rice research scientist Bin Gao. (CREDIT: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University) At temperatures approaching absolute zero, most magnetic ...

A Majorana fermion is a particle that would be identical to its antiparticle. Such an object has not yet been found. However, ...

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Light moving through a tiny silicon structure does not look dramatic. It slips down narrow waveguides etched onto a chip, ...

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Physicists begin to shed light on one of the most important questions regarding quantum spin liquids, and they do so by introducing a new phase of matter. Quantum spin liquids are difficult to explain ...

Describing natural phenomena with geometric language is one of the most important achievements of modern physics. In the context of general relativity, Einstein treats spacetime as a dynamic geometric ...

A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the Big Bang has always ...

At temperatures approaching absolute zero, most magnetic materials settle into tidy patterns. Their tiny magnetic moments, or spins, align in one of two ways: all pointing in the same direction in ...

For decades, confirming quantum entanglement meant isolating a handful of particles, cooling them to near absolute zero, and ...