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RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 25 June 2025 Phonons are quasiparticles that carry heat, and in electronic chips they can get blocked at interfaces between materials, leading to overheating. An electron-microscopy technique that…
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 11 June 2025 Using pulses of an ultrabright X-ray free-electron laser, the structure of liquid carbon was determined at pressures exceeding one million atmospheres and temperatures of around…
This week, physicists are gathering on the German island of Helgoland to commemorate 100 years since the discovery of quantum mechanics. In the century following Werner Heisenberg’s theoretical masterstroke —…
Credit: Joel Robine/AFP via Getty Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat was a giant of the mathematical study of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Her theorem establishing the existence of solutions to Einstein’s…
Nature, Published online: 28 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01624-9 Metamaterials made of magnetic photonic crystals have been generated and tuned to a theoretically predicted transition point at which peculiar optical properties emerge.…
LHC experiments don’t create large gold nuggets — but some particles within a beam of lead ions can turn into gold for about a microsecond.Credit: Zen Rial/Getty The dream of…
A combination of oil, water and magnetic particles defies conventional wisdom by consistently taking on the shape of an urn1. Access options Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals…
A photograph of antimatter particle (pale blue) meeting a matter particle and being annihilated.Credit: Science Photo Library Physicists have, for the first time, seen a matter particle from the proton…
On 1 January 1925, US astronomer Henry Norris Russell made a startling announcement to the American Astronomical Society in Washington DC: observations by fellow astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that the…
Researchers at CERN in 2012, including its then director-general Rolf-Dieter Heuer (second right) and current director-general Fabiola Gianotti (centre), anxiously await confirmation that the Higgs boson had finally been found.Credit:…