Whipping his racquet through the air like a cesta in jai alai, Rafael Nadal produces such tremendous topspin that the ball sometimes seems to catapult off the court, creating a shot as challenging to ...

Scientists uncovered a quantum spin liquid, a state of matter that may have applications for quantum information.

In episode three of What's in a name we look at how ideas can be lost in translation when physicists try to name the unknown. Categorizing things is central to science. And there are dozens of systems ...

NCCR SPIN focuses on creating scalable spin qubits in semiconductor nanostructures made of silicon and germanium, with the ...

Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) constitute a platform to explore various quantum effects. Their size-dependent colors are essentially a naked-eye, ambient-condition visualization of the quantum ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Superconductivity occurs when electrical current moves without resistance, a phenomenon that gave rise to particle accelerators, magnetic resonance imagining machines and trains ...

A fundamental link between two counterintuitive phenomena in spin glasses—reentrance and temperature chaos—has been mathematically proven for the first time. By extending the Edwards–Anderson model to ...

Astronomers have discovered a highly unusual and rare object—a fast-spinning Long Period Radio Transient (LPT) dubbed CHIME J1634+44—that challenges current understanding of stellar remnants and ...

A spinning basketball hurtles from the top of a dam, turning a simple ball into a high-speed physics experiment. As it falls, rotational motion interacts with gravity, air resistance, and impact ...