At TU Wien, researchers have discovered a state in a quantum material that had previously been considered impossible. The ...

For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other.

It is one of the most important laws of nature that we know: The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets ...

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Olival Freire Jr is a professor of physics and the history of physics at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. What makes matter stable? Why are atoms as they are? Why do different materials vary ...

If you asked a thousand physicists, they would all disagree. This statement could apply to any number of topics – whether the universe is infinite, what dark matter is made of, how to make wires ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, according to UNESCO, marking 100 years since quantum ...

Collective behavior is an unusual phenomenon in condensed-matter physics. When quantum spins interact together as a system, ...