Author(s): Marric Stephens

Researchers have proposed that long-range molecular dipole correlations alter water’s electrical properties when it’s confined in a gap a few nanometers wide.

[Physics 19, s130] Published Thu Oct 01, 2026

Author(s): Marric Stephens

Increasing the charging rate of a quantum battery leads to unavoidable fluctuations in the total energy stored. 

[Physics 19, s114] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

Author(s): Marric Stephens

Researchers have identified the reason a high-pressure, high-temperature superconductor outperforms other similar compounds.

[Physics 19, s109] Published Tue Sep 01, 2026

Author(s): Marric Stephens

Researchers have made the first definitive measurements of an elusive superconducting state.

[Physics 19, s106] Published Wed Aug 19, 2026

Author(s): Marric Stephens

A microscope video analysis has provided new details about molecular motion inside the nuclei of cancer cells.

[Physics 19, s99] Published Wed Aug 12, 2026

Author(s): Marric Stephens

Removing a mirror while a single photon is in the process of reflecting creates a quantum state of countless photons, theorists say.

[Physics 19, s91] Published Wed Jul 15, 2026

Author(s): Marric Stephens

Researchers have shown that defects in lattices of magnetic quasiparticles called skyrmions can be created, stabilized, and manipulated.

[Physics 19, s85] Published Tue Jul 07, 2026

Author(s): Marric Stephens

A new device that generates single photons with more consistent wavelengths than existing methods could improve quantum communications.

[Physics 19, s78] Published Wed Jun 17, 2026

Author(s): Marric Stephens

A new experiment shows that spin-polarized currents conducted by helical organic molecules are not just a measurement artifact, as some researchers suspected.

[Physics 19, s73] Published Tue Jun 02, 2026

Author(s): Marric Stephens

A deceptively simple question spurred an exploration of physicists’ views on whether their theories describe reality.

[Physics 19, 70] Published Wed May 27, 2026

Author(s): Marric Stephens

A material’s contorted magnetic texture could be used to focus or collimate spin waves in future spintronic devices.

[Physics 19, s68] Published Thu May 21, 2026

Author(s): Marric Stephens

The observation of ultrahigh-energy radiation from a binary star system suggests that such “gamma-ray binaries” could be significant contributors to the cosmic-ray spectrum.

[Physics 19, s51] Published Wed May 06, 2026

Author(s): Marric Stephens

Recently detected gamma rays are best accounted for by relativistic protons accelerated by a millennia-old supernova.

[Physics 19, s49] Published Thu Apr 23, 2026

Author(s): Marric Stephens

Precise spectroscopy of a simple molecular ion opens a new path toward stringent tests of quantum electrodynamics.

[Physics 19, s41] Published Wed Apr 08, 2026

Author(s): Marric Stephens

This year’s “Gallery of Soft Matter” contest features self-assembling nanostars, wrinkle patterns, and a drum full of tumbling grains.

[Physics 19, 42] Published Fri Mar 27, 2026

Author(s): Marric Stephens

New observations of cosmic rays that distinguish between hydrogen and helium find unexpected complexity in a long-observed spectral feature.

[Physics 19, s32] Published Thu Mar 26, 2026

Author(s): Marric Stephens

Applying thermodynamic principles makes quantum machine-learning protocols more efficient.

[Physics 19, s28] Published Thu Mar 12, 2026