Most physicists learn they’ve won a Nobel prize after being phoned up by the Swedish Academy of Sciences. But, as Preetish ...

A 100-year-old equation helps scientists build solar cells, develop biofuels and even study quantum computers.

In the race to build ever smaller and more complex computer chips, one of the most stubborn enemies is not the transistor ...

UCLA researchers built an AI system that uses light to analyze more than a dozen videos simultaneously, detecting deepfakes with nearly 98% accuracy. Its speed, low energy demands, and resistance to ...

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Boats passing over smooth water form a pair of diffusion wakes behind them veering off at a certain angle. Turbulence occurs ...

Old-fashioned striped barbershop poles turn in place on a vertical axis, but humans typically perceive the stripes moving ...

The question that remained from the previous article was: what is the "relative phase" corresponding to the two paths of a ...

An overarching goal of ultrafast science is to enable researchers to watch structural changes in matter on their natural timescale. Experimentally ...

Ultrafast lasers reveal how materials respond to light at the electron level, tracking dynamics with attosecond spectroscopy.

Rappal Sangameswara Krishnan, an IISc titan worked under C V Raman, carried out key research at Cambridge, and later led the Physics Department at IISc. His career linked the Krishnan Effect with the ...

The interplay between symmetry-breaking orders in topological materials dictates their exotic quantum states. Here, we report a combined transport, NMR, and electron diffraction study of Nb-doped Bi \ ...