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Magnetic levitation chamber could be used to simulate plant growth on Mars

Brain tumours spread by exploiting fundamental physics

Elastic cells favour malignant tumour growth

Electric fields make a ‘tuning knob’ for solid-state systems

New technique uses Feshbach resonances to adjust interactions in 2D materials

Machine learning aids studies of quantum magnets

“Library of spin models” will help experimentalists interpret data in the search for quantum spin liquids, say researchers

Research headlines

Quantum computer shows that time crystals are phases of matter

Quantum phase transition detected deep inside the Earth

Superionic ice phases could explain unusual magnetic fields around Uranus and Neptune

Quantum material ‘learns’ like a living creature

Discovery of habituation and sensitization behaviours in a Mott insulator could inspire new algorithms for artificial intelligence

Superconductivity appears in novel hydride phases

New work will aid the search for materials that superconduct at lower pressures and higher temperatures

Topological insulator design makes 30 lasers emit as one

Array of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) behaves as a single coherent light source

Superconductor reveals new state of matter involving pairs of Cooper pairs

Material breaks time reversal symmetry at a higher than expected temperature

Cooper pairs spotted above critical temperature for superconductivity

Shot noise reveals pairs in disordered superconductor with no pseudogap

Kagome geometry produces magnetism in a 2D organic material

Local magnetic moments have been spotted emerging from electron–electron interactions in an organic system for the first time

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