These chemical oddities may explain why Earth seems to be deficient in certain elements — and could prove useful in catalysts ...

Abstract: This paper presents recent upgrades to the supercritical helium circuit at the MIT Superconducting Magnet Test Facility to support the characterization of REBCO-based cable magnets. In ...

Physicists have observed a strange new quantum phase in a graphene-based system, where a superfluid appears to freeze into a solid-like state. Cooling usually pushes matter through a simple sequence.

Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and ...

The 20th century was marked by the discovery of exotic states of matter. First, liquid helium was observed to flow without friction at extremely low temperatures, a phase now known as superfluid. Soon ...

In a recent study in Nature, a research team from Columbia University and the University of Texas at Austin has made a ...

There is no measurement that can directly observe the wave function of a quantum mechanical system, but the wave function is still enormously useful as its (complex) square represents the probability ...