The so-called glass transition is the process by which some liquid-like materials become solid-like, without forming a ...

Physicists know from previous experiments that what happens at the nuclear scale to protons and neutrons also affects their ...

British philosopher Bertrand Russell said of the difference between our physical world experience and the scientific world of continually changing matter, “There is … some conflict between what common ...

Forced to run a labyrinth of carbon atoms uniquely arranged in twisted stacks, electrons do some rather peculiar things.

The scalability of quantum computing has remained a challenge for scientists, despite the technology being around for years.

Entropy always increases, but in quantum systems, traditional entropy measures seem constant. TU Wien researchers resolved this paradox by considering Shannon entropy, which accounts for the ...

Most people hear “spacecraft” and envision rockets blasting into space, but they’re often not aware of the meticulous ...

Superconducting materials are similar to the carpool lane in a congested interstate. Like commuters who ride together, ...

The odd superconductivity found in layered graphene may bring us closer to understanding room-temperature superconductors ...

February 7 is National Periodic Table Day, when we celebrate the efforts of scientists over the centuries to figure out how different elements ...

Now, researchers in Australia say they have devised a method of encoding quantum information that makes the accumulation of ...

This can help unlock its potential as a superconductive material as well as a building block for quantum computers in the ...