Electrons can be "kicked across" solar materials at almost the fastest speed nature allows, scientists have discovered, ...

In many quantum materials—materials with unusual electrical and magnetic properties driven by quantum mechanical effects—electrons can organize themselves into Landau levels. Landau levels are ...

The original story “ Physicists build a quantum Newton’s cradle where energy flows without resistance ” is published in The ...

Roughly 270 years ago, Dr. Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost from Germany observed a peculiar behavior of water droplets on heated ...

What links the Leidenfrost effect and sustainable energy storage systems? In a study recently published in Small, a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research ...

The scientific community long assumed that to understand how lightning works, one needed a ...

Ever had an idea for something that looked cool, but wouldn't work well in practice? When it comes to designing things like decor and personal accessories, generative artificial intelligence (genAI) ...

Mulugeta Bekele is almost single-handedly responsible for having kept Ethiopian physics going in the 1970s and 1980s despite being imprisoned and tortured by the Ethiopian military. Robert P Crease ...

International Women's Day has been celebrated around the world on 8 March every year since 1911. This year, the theme for ...

Quantum physics is the study of matter and energy at its most fundamental level. A central tenet of quantum physics is that energy comes in indivisible packets called quanta. Quanta behave very ...