This specialized golf ball looks and feels smooth, but a close examination under a standard light microscope reveals tiny ...

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In a first, physicists have directly seen Hofstadter’s butterfly—a long-sought-after fractal in the quantum realm ...

In the ebb and flow of crowded crosswalks, a surprising pattern emerges: people can naturally form neat lanes of movement.

New research from Russia proposes an unconventional method to detect unrealistic AI-generated images – not by improving the ...

Metals, as most know them, are good conductors of electricity. That's because the countless electrons in a metal like gold or ...

Scientists at Princeton University have made a groundbreaking discovery in quantum materials, revealing that electron energy ...

While the physics of uncorking a bottle of champagne has been well documented, less is known about the mechanisms at play when opening a swing-top bottle of beer. Physicist Max Koch from the ...

Researchers show that precisely layering nano-thin materials creates excitons -- essentially, artificial atoms -- that can act as quantum information bits, or qubits.

By taking two flakes of special materials that are just one atom thick and twisting them at high angles, researchers at the ...

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