Quanta Magazine: For decades, a family of crystals has stumped physicists with its baffling ability to superconduct — that is, carry an electric current without any resistance — at far warmer temperatures than other materials. Now, an experiment years in the…
Science: Is the search for fusion energy, long dominated by doughnut-shaped devices called tokamaks, about to undergo a shape shift? Just as ITER, the world’s largest tokamak—and at tens of billions of dollars the most expensive—nears completion in the hills…
Physics World: Researchers in France have created a new experiment that could improve our understanding of the dynamics of stellar and black hole accretion discs. Designed by Marlone Vernet and colleagues at the Sorbonne University of Paris, the experiment uses a…
Physics World: The quantum entanglement of a free electron with a photon has been achieved by researchers in Germany and Switzerland. The team, led by Armin Feist at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, achieved the feat using a new…
Quanta Magazine: Molybdenite, even to the trained eye, looks almost identical to graphite — a lustrous, silvery crystal. It acts similarly too, sloughing off flakes in a way that would make for a good pencil filling. But to an electron, the…
