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Winning Videos Feature Marbling Paint and Freezing Flashes
For the Gallery of Fluid Motion, researchers take the director’s chair and create videos on 3D printer patterns, frost formation, and paint swirls. Read More »
Model Correctly Predicts High-Temperature Superconducting Properties
A first-principles model accounts for the wide range of critical temperatures (Tc’s) for four materials and suggests a parameter that determines Tc in any high-temperature superconductor. Read More »
Quark Picture Put to the Test
A measurement of the charge radius of an aluminum nucleus probes the assumption that there are only three families of quarks. Read More »
Tension Remodeling Resolves Tissue Architecture Question
A dynamical tension model captures how cells swap places with their neighbors in epithelial tissues, explaining observed phase transitions and cellular architectures. Read More »
“Spin” Leaves Its Mark on Some Meteorite Craters
Numerical simulations reveal that an impact crater’s shape can depend on the impactor’s spin and its degree of cohesion. Read More »
Midcircuit Operations in Atomic Arrays
Three research groups have exploited the nuclear spins of ytterbium-171 to manipulate qubits before they are read out—an approach that could lead to efficient error-correction schemes for trapped-atom computing platforms. Read More »
Uncertainty beyond the Uncertainty Principle
According to a new extension to an old theory, a particle’s position cannot be measured precisely even if its momentum is not measured simultaneously. Read More »
Nuclear Ground State Has Molecule-Like Structure
The protons and neutrons in a nucleus can form clusters analogous to atoms in a molecule, even in the nuclear ground state. Read More »
Electrons Lead Their Lattice by the Nose
Experiments with an unconventional superconductor show that a change in the properties of the material’s electrons can, unexpectedly, cause the material to become dramatically less stiff. Read More »
