Recent Articles
Focus: Video—Stretching Fingers on a Puddle’s Edge
A spreading drop containing a mixture of two liquids breaks into fingers or spherical droplets, depending on the fluids. Read More »
Synopsis: “Breathing” Explains Light-Induced Darkening
New experiments identify the movement of oxygen atoms as the origin of light-induced color changes in the material yttrium oxyhydride. Read More »
Pumping up Ferroelectrics
Mixing a trace of an additional element into a material used in electronics could dramatically improve the material’s properties. Read More »
Synopsis: Excited by Shaped Electrons
Electrons with a modulated wave function might enable improvements in electron microscopy and quantum computing. Read More »
Synopsis: Predicting Contagion Speed
A new analysis predicts the speed at which an infectious disease spreads to specific individuals in a network. Read More »
Synopsis: Neural Networks Know Their Knots
Neural networks correctly classify different types of knot, a problem that has stumped physicists and mathematicians. Read More »
Viewpoint: Structure Formation in the Very Early Universe
Numerical calculations explain how density fluctuations in the Universe grew by orders of magnitude during the “primordial dark ages.” Read More »
Focus: Green Light for Terahertz Movies
A new technique uses long-wavelength infrared radiation to produce video with a high frame rate, which could be useful for nondestructive testing of products. Read More »
Synopsis: Possible Neutrino Sources Peek out of IceCube Data
Ten years of observations from the IceCube detector show that researchers are closing in on identifying the astrophysical sources of high-energy neutrinos. Read More »
