PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Superconductivity occurs when electrical current moves without resistance, a phenomenon that gave rise to particle accelerators, magnetic resonance imagining machines and trains ...

What makes something quantum? This question has kept a small but dedicated fraction of the world’s population – most of them quantum physicists – up at night for decades. At very small scales, we know ...

The weak nuclear force doesn't play by the normal rules — and, in fact, it breaks one of the biggest rules of all.

Spin waves are considered to be promising candidates for a new form of electronics. Instead of electrons, the focus here is ...

In episode three of What's in a name we look at how ideas can be lost in translation when physicists try to name the unknown. Categorizing things is central to science. And there are dozens of systems ...

Quantum defects are tiny imperfections in solid crystal lattices that can trap individual electrons and their "spin" (i.e., ...

For decades, astronomers have looked to the outer reaches of the cosmos for answers to our most fundamental questions: Where ...