At the smallest scales of nature, the rules of the world shift in ways that can feel unsettling and beautiful at the same ...

Auroras are nature’s most special light show: when charged particles from the sun hit our atmosphere, they can generate bright colors that dance across the night sky near the Earth’s poles. Auroras ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2026.250149, discusses a quarter-wave geometric-phase route ...

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A sensitive matter-wave interferometer measuring moiré fringes offers force sensitivity comparable to quantum interference ...

Tests in a gate-defined loop on graphene tracked a fractional charge circling back with a steady interference beat, as ...

Palestinian church leaders warn that settler violence and Israeli policies threaten the survival of Christian communities in ...

Create a focused speaker so your music targets only the listener. That demodulates at 40 kilohertz, with an H-bridge and ...

A record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle ...

Quantum physics overturned classical ideas by showing that matter behaves very differently at the smallest scales. One of its most surprising discoveries was wave-particle duality, the idea that ...

The circumglobal teleconnection pattern (CGT) is a key mode of atmospheric variability during boreal summer, identified by an upper-tropospheric wave train propagating along the subtropical jet. CGT ...