Recent Articles
Quantum Light Leaves Its Fingerprint on Electrons
When intense quantum light knocks electrons out of atoms, the statistics of the light can be transferred to the electrons. Read More »
First Nuclear Clocks Kick Off a Precision Race
Two independent teams have built operating nuclear clocks—devices that might one day rival the best atomic clocks and offer new ways to probe fundamental physics. Read More »
A Little Noise Helps a Soft Valve Close
A simplified model of the heart’s mitral valve shows that flow fluctuations can cause a soft valve to close at about one-tenth the pressure required under steady flow. Read More »
Rearranging Crystals from Within
Julian Klein and Frances Ross explain how electron microscopes are becoming tools for engineering defects inside crystalline materials. Read More »
Spinning Liquid into Solid
A new technique for generating solid fibers from a liquid jet is easier to model—and thus easier to control—than past methods. Read More »
The Giant Permittivity of Nanoconfined Water
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. Read More »
Snapshot: In the Eye of the Beholder
The shape of gold nanostructures changes depending on how they are imaged. Read More »
Simulating Particle Creation with Cold Atoms
Researchers observe atoms trapped in an optical lattice mimicking particles created in a strong electric field. Read More »
Quantum Light Reveals How Solvents Affect Molecules
Pairs of photons provide a gentle way to measure the impact of a molecule’s environment on its ultrafast dynamics. Read More »
