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Author(s): Rachel Berkowitz

A first-of-its-kind measurement reveals the energy spectrum of the neutrons produced during the fission of plutonium, a common nuclear fuel component.

[Physics 17, s68] Published Thu Jun 13, 2024

Author(s): David Ehrenstein

Researchers created an ultracold gas of molecules with strong magnetic dipoles, which may lead to new types of Bose-Einstein condensates.

[Physics 17, s73] Published Wed Jun 12, 2024

Author(s): Charles Day

A theory first applied to phase transitions in the early Universe and then to defects in superfluid helium can now account for a wider variety of systems.

[Physics 17, s61] Published Tue Jun 11, 2024

Author(s): Valentina Zhelyazkova

A detailed study of a reaction between a molecular ion and a neutral atom has implications for both atmospheric and interstellar chemistry.

[Physics 17, 93] Published Mon Jun 10, 2024

Author(s): Mark Buchanan

Collections of interacting self-propelled objects held rigidly together show patterns of organized behavior that can be predicted.

[Physics 17, 94] Published Fri Jun 07, 2024

Author(s): Matteo Rini

Some ultralight black holes that formed soon after the big bang might have been exotic objects with a net “color charge” that left potentially observable signatures.

[Physics 17, s69] Published Thu Jun 06, 2024

Author(s): Charles Day

Using a single set of measurements of an electronic circuit, researchers have characterized the properties of the topologically protected edge states of a quantum Hall system.

[Physics 17, s63] Published Wed Jun 05, 2024

Author(s): Andrea Parlangeli

Using an atomic array originally designed for quantum memory, researchers have demonstrated a magnetometer with unprecedented spatial resolution.

[Physics 17, 92] Published Tue Jun 04, 2024

Author(s): Marric Stephens

Statistical properties of fluctuations of certain parameters describing a complex system can reveal when that system is approaching a tipping point.

[Physics 17, s64] Published Tue Jun 04, 2024

Author(s): Kirill Korolev

A new model, vetted by experiments on lung cancer cells, may help to explain how cancer and other diseases accumulate drug-resistance mutations that can compromise the effectiveness of treatments.

[Physics 17, 90] Published Mon Jun 03, 2024

Author(s): Elizabeth Fernandez

Experiments and theory explain how charge builds up in a moving water drop and why the effect requires a water-repelling surface.

[Physics 17, 91] Published Fri May 31, 2024

Author(s): Rachel Berkowitz

A small device senses sounds using a spiderweb-like design—a strategy that could lead to chip-size microphones that are less affected by thermal noise.

[Physics 17, 89] Published Thu May 30, 2024

Author(s): Martin Rodriguez-Vega

Experiments and numerical simulations indicate that randomly replacing a few nonmagnetic components with magnetic ones in a photonic alloy induces backscattering-free light propagation along its edge.

[Physics 17, s60] Published Thu May 30, 2024

Author(s): David Ehrenstein

Experiments comparing neutron-rich cadmium with previous data on a neutron-poor version prove that a key parameter in nuclear calculations depends on the neutron-to-proton ratio.

[Physics 17, s65] Published Wed May 29, 2024

Author(s): Sai Mu

Group theory and first-principles calculations combine to predict which antiferromagnets have potentially useful net surface magnetization.

[Physics 17, 88] Published Tue May 28, 2024

Author(s): Marric Stevens

A thin film of a topological magnet displays a large thermoelectric effect that doesn’t require an applied magnetic field—a behavior that could lead to new energy-harvesting devices.

[Physics 17, s66] Published Tue May 28, 2024

Author(s): Philip Ball

Researchers discovered a trick for dragging an object in a fluid with minimal effort, suggesting an optimal strategy for nanorobots.

[Physics 17, 87] Published Fri May 24, 2024

Author(s): Sarah Wells

Using atomic layer deposition, scientists have created a new light-absorbing thin film that could help telescopes see a starrier night.

[Physics 17, 86] Published Thu May 23, 2024

Author(s): Matteo Rini

Spacetime wrinkles known as cosmic strings, which might have formed in the early Universe, could be a dominant source of gravitational waves at ultrahigh frequencies, according to new calculations.

[Physics 17, s62] Published Thu May 23, 2024

Author(s): Michael Hahn

New solar observations indicate that plasma waves are responsible for the Sun’s outer atmosphere having different abundances of chemical elements than the Sun’s other layers.

[Physics 17, 83] Published Wed May 22, 2024