Experiments show that bundling of individual strands of an important protein polymer can occur through capillary forces, not just through molecular binding.

Low-frequency radio observations delineate filamentary structures at the heart of a cluster of galaxies. Named after the musical symbol it resembles, the Treble Clef is an example of what astronomers ...

Flat bands harbor exotic electron physics. A new way of realizing them could make the physics more accessible.

A device that stores a single positron and controls its quantum states could measure its magnetic moment with unprecedented precision, testing a symmetry principle central to quantum field theory.

Topological superconductors hold promise for fault-tolerant quantum computing, but isolating signatures of the desired topological states has proven an elusive goal. A new study of an iron-based ...

Lab experiments provide new details about the charge-transfer process that occurs in ash clouds and other collections of particles. Electric volcano. Triboelectric charging caused by collisions of ash ...

A technique known as ghost imaging has been adapted so that an object can be imaged by discarding all photons that interact with it. Split a beam of light in two and direct one beam (the reference) to ...

According to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, both the position and momentum of a quantum particle cannot be known with unlimited precision. In 1965, theorists showed that this principle does not ...

Figure 1: Moore and his colleagues measured the momentum kick imparted by a single gas molecule on an optically levitated silica nanoparticle (center) [2]. Thanks to the isolation offered by setups ...