Author(s): Ryan Wilkinson

Simulations reveal disordered structures that are also surprisingly resistant to impacts and cracks.

[Physics 19, 108] Published Fri Jul 31, 2026

Author(s): Charles Day

Supercomputer simulations reveal how turbulence supports a Goldilocks regime for operating a fusion reactor.

[Physics 19, s95] Published Thu Jul 30, 2026

Author(s): Rachel Berkowitz

A new light-trapping architecture could lead to CMOS-compatible night-vision technology.

[Physics 19, s97] Published Wed Jul 29, 2026

Author(s): Samuel Jarman

A new AI-powered event-processing algorithm is being readied to cope with the torrent of data that will stream from the Large Hadron Collider upgrade.

[Physics 19, 107] Published Tue Jul 28, 2026

Author(s): Ryan Wilkinson

An AI model accurately estimates quantities that determine a material’s response to electric fields—at a fraction of the usual computational cost.

[Physics 19, s102] Published Tue Jul 28, 2026

Author(s): Charles Day

A technique for determining the magnetic structure of materials gets a theoretical makeover that can cope with nonrandom, temporally correlated fluctuations.

[Physics 19, s96] Published Tue Jul 28, 2026

Author(s): Xin Qiao and Xiao-Bo Zhang

A ring of optical fiber can be made to host phenomena that originated in the realm of high-energy physics.

[Physics 19, 89] Published Mon Jul 27, 2026

Author(s): Rachel Berkowitz

Nicole Yunger Halpern brings her quantum thermodynamics research to the public via analogies to a futuristic Victorian adventure.

[Physics 19, 101] Published Thu Jul 23, 2026

Author(s): Ryan Wilkinson

A new atomic force microscope captures the structures of individual molecules and their chemical bonds at record speeds.

[Physics 19, s93] Published Thu Jul 23, 2026

Author(s): Peter Röseler

By implementing a quantum neural network using two quantum-computing platforms, researchers have taken steps toward determining whether such systems can reliably fulfill their theoretical promise.

[Physics 19, 100] Published Wed Jul 22, 2026

Author(s): Charles Day

Researchers have figured out the origin of an exotic antiferromagnet’s out-of-plane spin currents.

[Physics 19, s104] Published Wed Jul 22, 2026

Author(s): Ryan Wilkinson

Ultracold atoms in an optical lattice could emulate a prominent model of quantum matter linked to black holes and high-temperature superconductors.

[Physics 19, s90] Published Tue Jul 21, 2026

Author(s): Steven Hoekstra

Certain molecules can be placed into states that are less sensitive to external noise, offering researchers a quiet system for probing fundamental physics.

[Physics 19, 103] Published Mon Jul 20, 2026

Author(s): Charles Day

A new theory examines the various ways quasiparticles pair up in two-dimensional semiconductors under high magnetic fields.

[Physics 19, s82] Published Thu Jul 16, 2026

Author(s): Ryan Wilkinson

Experiments show signs of a material that conducts electricity in opposite directions along its edges through fractionally charged quasiparticles.

[Physics 19, s87] Published Thu Jul 16, 2026

Author(s): Rachel Berkowitz

A mineral physics interpretation of NASA seismic data hints that Mars has a chemically evolved crust.

[Physics 19, 104] Published Wed Jul 15, 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): Rachel Berkowitz

A framework based on knot theory links the robustness of textiles to the way defects propagate through them.

[Physics 19, s88] Published Tue Jul 14, 2026

Author(s): Aziza Almanakly

Two independent groups have demonstrated ways to entangle quantum bits without the need for precisely timed control pulses.

[Physics 19, 91] Published Mon Jul 13, 2026

Author(s): Philip Ball

Decades-old experiments have now been enlisted to set new bounds on the properties of a hypothetical particle that bears a tiny fraction of the electron’s charge.

[Physics 19, 102] Published Fri Jul 10, 2026