Recent Articles
Chess Reveals Differences Between Human and AI Strategies
Chess grandmasters move toward a less complex game faster than AI players, suggesting different approaches for balancing short- and long-term prospects. Read More »
Tuning Light Polarization with Quantum Geometry
A crystal with special geometric properties can be optically driven to produce an output beam with any desired polarization. Read More »
Quantum States Cannot Hide Their Origin
Theorists find a persistent signature of a chaotic quantum system’s initial state, implying a memory effect—called a quantum birthmark—that resists thermodynamic equilibration. Read More »
Making Uranian and Neptunian Ice on Earth
Researchers crushed and heated ice between diamond anvils to confirm the existence of a phase of ice that could be present in the warm mantles of ice giants. Read More »
Nonreciprocity Sends Flocks into Chaos
Two intermingled species of active matter can exhibit coherent rotation or disorderly scrambling depending on their mutual interactions. Read More »
Lab-Based Plasmas Shed Light on Stellar Mystery
Using high-power lasers to drive highly magnetized plasmas, researchers have probed the stellar processes that control coronal mass ejections. Read More »
A Quantum Filter for Improved Spintronics
A precisely engineered material interface can host the spin currents needed for practical spin-based electronics. Read More »
To Lase or Not to Lase: The Question of Neutrino Superradiance
Two studies find that fundamental quantum constraints rule out a previously proposed neutrino-laser scheme. Read More »
The Effect of Clouds on Wind Farms
Simulations suggest that clouds can reduce the length of a wind farm’s slow-air wake, potentially increasing power production of neighboring wind farms. Read More »
