Author(s): Charles Day

Flat bands harbor exotic electron physics. A new way of realizing them could make the physics more accessible.

[Physics 19, s128] Published Tue Oct 20, 2026

Author(s): Joanna A. Zielińska

An experiment resolves the tiny momentum transferred from an individual gas molecule to a levitated nanoparticle.

[Physics 19, 136] Published Mon Oct 19, 2026

Author(s): Marric Stephens

A technique known as ghost imaging has been adapted so that an object can be imaged by discarding all photons that interact with it.

[Physics 19, s127] Published Thu Oct 15, 2026

Author(s): Sophia Chen

An ultrafast optical technique uncovers new clues to the origin of bulk polarization in quantum ferroelectric materials.

[Physics 19, s132] Published Wed Oct 14, 2026

Author(s): John B. DeBrota

A new analysis reveals that all major derivations of the Born rule depend on a probabilistic assumption.

[Physics 19, 133] Published Tue Oct 13, 2026

Author(s): Ryan Wilkinson

Photoelectron interference can reveal otherwise hidden properties of quantum light through an apparent attosecond time shift.

[Physics 19, s125] Published Tue Oct 13, 2026

Author(s): Sophia Chen

A new device in which more than 600 atoms are manipulated within a single optical cavity could allow for the scaling up of neutral-atom quantum computers.

[Physics 19, s126] Published Thu Oct 08, 2026

Author(s): David Ehrenstein

Regions within a cell in which biomolecules are concentrated, called condensates, form different structures when enzymes are involved, according to experiments.

[Physics 19, s139] Published Thu Oct 08, 2026

Author(s): Anthony Ciavarella

Pairing superconducting qubits with microwave cavities could reduce the hardware requirements for quantum simulations of fundamental physics.

[Physics 19, 135] Published Wed Oct 07, 2026

Author(s): Matteo Rini

Two independent teams have built operating nuclear clocks—devices that might one day rival the best atomic clocks and offer new ways to probe fundamental physics.

[Physics 19, 139] Published Wed Oct 07, 2026

Author(s): Ryan Wilkinson

When intense quantum light knocks electrons out of atoms, the statistics of the light can be transferred to the electrons.

[Physics 19, s123] Published Wed Oct 07, 2026

Author(s): Michael Schirber

Neutrino astronomy and the effort to build a cubic-kilometer-sized detector at the South Pole are recognized by the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics.

[Physics 19, 138] Published Tue Oct 06, 2026

Author(s): Charles Day

Researchers measured a crystal’s elastic modulus and sound attenuation to infer the properties of two superconducting states.

[Physics 19, s122] Published Tue Oct 06, 2026

Author(s): Matteo Pezzulla

A simplified model of the heart’s mitral valve shows that flow fluctuations can cause a soft valve to close at about one-tenth the pressure required under steady flow.

[Physics 19, 130] Published Mon Oct 05, 2026

Author(s): Akashni Raghubar Latchanna

Julian Klein and Frances Ross explain how electron microscopes are becoming tools for engineering defects inside crystalline materials.

[Physics 19, 131] Published Mon Oct 05, 2026

Author(s): Mark Buchanan

A new technique for generating solid fibers from a liquid jet is easier to model—and thus easier to control—than past methods.

[Physics 19, 137] Published Fri Oct 02, 2026

The shape of gold nanostructures changes depending on how they are imaged.

[Physics 19, 134] Published Thu Oct 01, 2026

Author(s): Marric Stephens

Researchers have proposed that long-range molecular dipole correlations alter water’s electrical properties when it’s confined in a gap a few nanometers wide.

[Physics 19, s130] Published Thu Oct 01, 2026

Author(s): Michael Schirber

Researchers observe atoms trapped in an optical lattice mimicking particles created in a strong electric field.

[Physics 19, s131] Published Thu Oct 01, 2026

Author(s): Kamran Behnia and Zengwei Zhu

The discovery of a thermal version of the Hall effect in common semiconductors challenges our understanding of how magnetic fields and heat fluxes interact within solids.

[Physics 19, 122] Published Wed Sep 30, 2026