Physics World: Three years ago, an international team of researchers observed something unexpected in a sample of chromium triiodide (CrI3): quasiparticles known as magnons appeared to be travelling along its edges, rather than moving through the sample’s bulk. This observation suggested…
Wired: Planck’s constant is one of the fundamental constants that sets up all the “rules” for how things work in our universe. (It’s named after the theoretical physicist Max Planck, who is best known for his work on quantized energy…
Quanta Magazine: This spring, at a meeting of Syracuse University’s quark physics group, Ivan Polyakov announced that he had uncovered the fingerprints of a semi-mythical particle. “We said, ‘This is…
Space.com: Physicists have created the first-ever atomic vortex beam — a swirling tornado of atoms and molecules with mysterious properties that have yet to be understood. By sending a…
Physics: Since the construction of the first particle accelerators, increasing the energy of those accelerators has allowed physicists to produce and discover heavier and heavier particles. Those discoveries have extended our knowledge of the subatomic world and eventually resulted in the theoretical framework called the standard model. New particles…
