Mathematicians say knots cannot exist in four-dimensional space because the extra dimension allows a rope to move around itself and untangle, revealing surprising insights into geometry and topology.

A team of physicists has experimentally confirmed a long-predicted sequence of exotic magnetic phases in an atomically thin ...

Quantum mechanical effects are known to be easily disrupted by disturbances from the surrounding environment, commonly referred to as noise. To minimize these disturbances, physicists often study ...

Researchers have systematically charted a superconducting dome in thin films of strontium-doped lanthanum nickelate, ...

By cooling an atom-thin magnetic material, physicists have experimentally confirmed a classic 1970s model of two-dimensional ...

Superconductivity is a quantum state of matter characterized by an electrical resistance of zero and the expulsion of ...

Vijay Balasubramanian (University of Pennsylvania) emphasised that the challenge is not only reproducing the familiar area law – which links entropy to the area of the event horizon – but also ...

Every chemical reaction, from the combustion of fuel to the folding of a protein, is governed by quantum mechanics. Electrons do not follow simple trajectories but exist as probabilistic wave ...

Crystal jellyfish have an eerie beauty: thanks to a natural protein, they emit a faint green glow. For decades, researchers ...

Multicellularity evolved independently multiple times in eukaryotes. Two distinct mechanisms underpin multicellularity: clonality (serial cell division without sister-cell separation) and aggregation ...

Aurora, one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, is now being used to ...

Attosecond pulses enable sub-femtosecond studies of ultrafast electron dynamics. Since 2001, pulse durations have shortened ...