The planar Hall effect is a tabletop diagnostic tool for special quantum properties useful in basic research and ...

California’s public universities spent $16.9 million on A.I. during a financial crisis, and the result has been chaos.

He wrote a controversial book about a deadly disaster. It became a massive hit. Now he wishes it all would go away.

Water was supposed to be a boring business. Yet Macquarie Group’s decade as owner of Thames Water was anything but. Funds managed by the Australian bank and asset manager made about £930 million ($1.2 ...

Researchers have discovered how microscopic imperfections and atomic vibrations can be used to control a powerful quantum ...

Topological phases are unusual states of matter that give rise to properties protected by a material's overall structure (i.e., "topology"), as opposed to microscopic details. These phases are of ...

Foucault’s pendulum experiment led to an increase in the public’s interest in both real-life science and science fiction.

In one sentence: The spin Hall effect is a phenomenon in which an ordinary electric current flowing through a non-magnetic conductor with strong spin-orbit coupling creates a sideways spin current, ...

If you travel deep into the New Right, what you find at the moment is a constant yearning for something very old. Not just a ...

Quantum physicists have uncovered a bizarre phenomenon in which photons appear to spend a “negative” amount of time ...

The brain is a mere piece of furniture in the vastness of the cosmos, subject to the same physical laws as asteroids, electrons or photons. On the surface, its three pounds of neural tissue seem to ...

For nearly a century, there were two known kinds of magnets. Ferromagnets are the classic magnets that attract metal and keep pictures stuck to the refrigerator. Antiferromagnets hide their magnetism ...