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A bursting bubble can make a puddle jump

Droplet scientists push the boundary between living and non-living matter

Systems governed by chemistry and physics, not biology, can behave in surprisingly lifelike ways, as Giorgio Volpe, Rob Malinowski and Joe Forth explain

Lunar magnetic field mystery may finally have an explanation

Physicists weren’t sure why Moon rocks brought back during the Apollo missions are more strongly magnetized than models predict

Dark optical cavity alters superconductivity

Quantum fluctuations couple to stretching bonds

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Read-out of Majorana qubits reveals their hidden nature

Microscope image of two quantum dots connected by a superconducting wire. Other circuitry elements are also visible on the chip.

Visible light paints patterns onto chiral antiferromagnets

Set of three images. The first is a magnetic circular dichroism microscopy image of random antiferromagnetic domains in a material. The domains resemble red and blue blobs. The second image shows the same blobs, but now organized into a red letter M with a red arrow over it against a blue background. The third image contains diagrams of materials with positive and negative chirality.

Metallic material breaks 100-year thermal conductivity record

Three images, labelled 0.1 ps, 1 ps and 10 ps. The 0.1 ps image shows a red blob surrounded by a white ring against a blue background. In the 1 ps image, the red blob and white ring are bigger. In the 10 ps image, the red blob and white ring take up nearly the whole frame, leaving little of the blue background showing.

Giant barocaloric cooling effect offers a new route to refrigeration

Environmentally friendly dissolution-based method reduces temperature of water by nearly 27 K in just 20 seconds

Fluid gears make their debut

New work could promote the development of next-generation machines without mechanical interlocking teeth

New sensor uses topological material to detect helium leaks

Device works by monitoring frequency of sound waves propagating through a kagome material

Shining laser light on a material produces subtle changes in its magnetic properties

New use for photolithography could have applications for data storage

Anyon physics could explain coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism

Calculations explain curious properties of some 2D materials

New hybrid state of matter is a mix of solid and liquid

Finding could be important for catalysis and other thermally-activated industrial processes

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Slow spectroscopy sheds light on photodegradation

Technique reveals how organic materials accumulate charge

Photo of the slow spectroscopy experiment

Ice XXI appears in a diamond anvil cell

Previously unknown ice phase exists at room temperature and pressures of 2 GPa

Photo of the IC2 interaction chamber of the HED experimental station at the European XFEL. It's a large metal vacuum chamber with various ports and hoses coming out of it. A strip of yellow caution tape is visible on the floor in the background

Microscale ‘wave-on-a-chip’ device sheds light on nonlinear hydrodynamics

New device could help us better understand phenomena from ocean waves and hurricanes to weather and climate

Electron microscope image of the superfluid wave tank used in the experiments coupled to an optical fibre which brings laser light in and out of the device

New cylindrical metamaterials could act as shock absorbers for sensitive equipment

Topological kagome tubes isolate vibrations to one end, keeping the other end safe

Image of the 3D printed kagome tube, which is white and features a repeating structure

Scientists realize superconductivity in traditional semiconducting material

Superconducting germanium could find application in a new generation of quantum devices

Superconducting germanium:gallium trilayer

New experiments on static electricity cast doubt on previous studies in the field

Bulk conductivity may have been hiding the dynamics of surface charge transfer, say researchers

A photograph of the experimental apparatus, viewed through a mesh grid

Ternary hydride shows signs of room-temperature superconductivity at high pressures

New alloy is made by doping scandium into the well-known La-H binary system

Crystal structure of new room-temperature superconductor

Quantum fluids mix like oil and water

Rayleigh–Taylor instability responsible for mushroom clouds appears in a two-component BEC

A photo of the experimental setup. It's in a laboratory with a large optical bench containing a vacuum system and optical components. Three screens in the background act as displays, and the entire scene is dark and bathed in orange laser light

New protocol makes an elusive superconducting signature measurable

Physicists have designed a protocol to study high-temperature superconductivity on an experimentally realizable platform

Conversion of a hard-to-detect signal into a pattern that reveals d-wave pairing

Doorway states spotted in graphene-based materials

Low-energy electron emission spectra depend on sample thickness

Illustration of a doorway state using a frog in a box

Physicists explain why some fast-moving droplets stick to hydrophobic surfaces

New experiments and calculations could improve aerosol and microfluidic technologies while shedding more light on airborne disease transmission

Four time-lapse series of images showing droplets bouncing. There are 13 images in each series and each series of images has a different colour background to distinguish them

Antiferromagnets could be better than ferromagnets for some ultrafast, high-density memories

Researchers in Japan have succeeded in switching a manganese-tin nanodot using electric current pulses as short as 0.1 ns

Two arrows pointing in opposite directions

Schwinger effect appears in a 2D superfluid

Physicists model vacuum tunnelling in a simple system

Meniscus size and shape affect how liquid waves move through barriers

Effect could come in useful for a host of practical applications that call for fluid control

Space–time crystal emerges in a liquid crystal

Accessible systems is classical and operates at room temperature

A time crystal as seen under a microscope

Quantum sensors reveal ‘smoking gun’ of superconductivity in pressurized bilayer nickelates

Observation of the Meissner effect could spur the development of highly sensitive quantum detectors that operate under high-pressure conditions

Highest-resolution images ever taken of a single atom reveal new kind of vibrations

Images are the first experimental evidence of long-predicted low-energy atomic vibrations called moiré phasons in twisted 2D materials

Set of three images, one showing specks of light in an orderly array against a dark background (the atoms in the material) and two showing different-shaped clouds of fuzzy dots (the atoms alone)

How hot can you make a solid before it melts?

Superheated gold stays solid at temperatures far beyond the predicted "entropy catastrophe"

A laser superheats a sample of gold. The gold is shown as a gold-coloured lattice while the laser is a bright beam of light. A rainbow coming off the lattice represents light being emitted at different wavelengths

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