IntroductionIn a sunny lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, two starfish fought over their prey. Overlapping arms pinned a hunk of thawing cocktail...

Xinyu Fei1, Lucas T. Brady2, Jeffrey Larson3, Sven Leyffer3, and Siqian Shen11Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor2Joint Center...

Materials and nanotechnology are thriving fields for physicists, who often benefit from collaborating with chemists,...

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A new partnership between ANCORP and LOS Vacuum Products will enable scientists and engineers to optimize the vacuum conditions for their...

Daniel HuergaStewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver V6T 1Z4, BC, CanadaDepartment of Physical Chemistry, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU,...

An experiment has shown that the spins of two electrons in a Cooper pair have...

The sensitivity of a scanning-tunnelling microscope improves by up to a factor of 50 when...

A century ago, the German physicists Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach carried out an experiment that gave an important credibility boost...

Kagome’s are a material whose structure is named after a traditional Japanese basket weaving technique. The weaving creates a pattern of hexagons bordered by...

Neodymium is an element, and in the absence of significant amounts of any other material, it exhibits glassy behavior in its crystalline state, in...