Recent Articles
Focus: Microscopic Theory for Peeling Tape
Extensive experiments lead to a theory that describes the microscale, jerky process involved in the seemingly smooth peeling of tape from a surface. Read More »
Synopsis: Galactic Spirals May Form Spontaneously
Spiral galaxies could be transient, nonequilibrium structures originating from the collapse of clouds of matter interacting solely through self-gravity. Read More »
Viewpoint: A Theory to Tackle Supercooling
Reconciling the high viscosity of “supercooled” liquids with their microstructure has stumped existing theory, but an advance in liquid-state theory may lead to a resolution. Read More »
Synopsis: Sorting Blood Cells via Their Stiffness
A proposed modification to a microfluidic cell-sorting device could separate cells by their deformability, an important marker for several diseases. Read More »
Synopsis: Neutrino Probes of Long-Range Interactions
Researchers place new limits on hypothetical interactions between neutrinos and large electron populations on galactic scales. Read More »
Viewpoint: A Metamaterial for Superscattering Light
A team has engineered a subwavelength structure that features a greatly enhanced capacity to scatter microwave light. Read More »
Focus: Noise Improves Flow of Energy
A quantum effect in which random fluctuations help waves to propagate has been demonstrated in a chain of ten atoms. Read More »
Synopsis: Freezing a 2D Ion Crystal
A laser scheme cools more than a hundred vibrational modes of a 2D crystal to close to their quantum mechanical ground state. Read More »
Synopsis: Extra Dimensions Give Optimization a Boost
The computation of stable atomic structures can be greatly accelerated if performed in a space with extra dimensions. Read More »
