They use Earth's magnetic field to orient themselves. To better understand this mechanism, the team led by Argovia-Professor Martino Poggio from the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the Department of ...

Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.

Imagine a "smart fluid" whose internal structure can be rearranged just by changing temperature. In a new study published in Matter, researchers report a way to overcome a long-standing limitation in ...

In our 3D space, elementary particles neatly filter into either bosons or fermions. But in lower dimensions, that distinction ...

Our system is remarkable because it’s incredibly simple,” said paper author and physicist David Grier of New York University.