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Two experiments have detected the signature of a new particle, which may combine quarks in a way not seen before.

A model mixing Brownian motion with purposeful movement guided by vocal signals suggests that Mongolian gazelle herds may have developed an efficient foraging strategy.

Sound at a specific frequency passes through a wall with membrane-covered holes, as if the wall weren’t there.

New simulations better explain how Fibonacci patterns can emerge from the biochemical processes driving a plant’s growth.

Differences in measurements of the expansion of the Universe may point to physics beyond the standard model of cosmology.

Researchers designed and synthesized an organic molecule whose electronic structure helps funnel energy into fluorescent emission.

New experiments show how to optically initialize a specific spin state of a single manganese atom placed inside a quantum dot for spintronics applications.

Design ideas for making new optical devices borrow from supersymmetry, a candidate theory in particle physics.

By measuring hydrogen line emission with an atomic clock hundreds of kilometers away, researchers place strict limits on possible corrections to relativity.

A calculation performed with four photon qubits proves that a promising quantum algorithm works.

Laser control of polariton current offers a new range of devices for all-optical logic circuits.

Molecules in a liquid crystal order into a pattern whose links and twists resemble a Hopf fibration, a geometric shape from topology with unusual properties.

Materials in which heat flows perpendicular to an electric current could lead to better devices for cooling electronics.

Researchers have trapped a single atom in a tiny cavity, controlling its motion, position, and coupling to photons.

A moving gas cloud might help probe a population of black holes believed to inhabit the center of our galaxy.

Strange-beauty mesons are only the third type of particle observed to violate CP symmetry.

Researchers apply a new experimental approach to visualize the turbulent motion of swimming bacteria and propose a minimal model that captures their observations.

A demonstration of photon-pair generation from visible to telecom wavelengths may speed the development of quantum networks.

Internal stress in a glass material is an important source of strength. Theory and experiments provide a new molecular-scale understanding of the process by which such stress develops.

A quantum gravity theory suggests that the cores of black holes may be a region of highly curved spacetime, rather than a singularity point with zero volume and infinite density.