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Scientists find a new critical point in supercooled water

Conceptual image showing a bright neon red laser beam striking a glass of water. Inside the water glass are little ball-and-stick models of water molecules. The glass is divided into dark and light blue regions, representing the two liquid phases of supercooled water. On the side of the glass opposite the laser beam, the water is bursting outward.

Want to make a peptide material go from soft to stiff? Just add water

Discovery could facilitate the large-scale fabrication of materials that adapt to changing conditions

Pollen dispersion study offers hope for hay fever sufferers

Studying how pollen is dispersed from trees when the wind blows could help urban planners mitigate future exposure to airborne pollen grains

Stoichiometric iron telluride is a superconductor: magnetic mystery is solved

Antiferromagnetism is caused by excess iron

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Miniature magnets break field strength record

Magnetic friction defies centuries-old law

Pressure quench increases superconducting transition temperature

Electrosolvation force can act over long distances

Attractive force between a pair of like-charged colloidal particles is measured

Geometry induces chirality in nickel – and magnons flow

Twisted nickel nanotubes use shape as the source of asymmetry

Fluid flow: how heat can move from cooler to warmer regions

New work could help design electronic devices in which heat can be guided in certain directions, minimizing heat loss

Surface contamination holds the key to a static electricity mystery

Carbon-rich “schmutz” determines how charge moves between objects made from identical insulating oxides

Superfluid plasmon appears in a two-dimensional superconductor

New finding could advance our understanding of high-temperature superconductors

At low exciton density, a superfluid suddenly stops flowing

Physicists say they may have observed a supersolid phase in a superfluid

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Physicists demonstrate long-predicted exotic magnetic phases in 2D material

Observations of how magnetism behaves in atomically thin materials could pave the way for new generations of ultracompact magnetic technologies

A bursting bubble can make a puddle jump

In a breakthrough in droplet physics, researchers find a way to get centimetre-scale water droplets to jump into the air

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

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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

Three people standing in front of a green and grey cutaway model of the Earth's layers. Yellow lines representing magnetic fields spring out from the model Earth's poles.

Dark optical cavity alters superconductivity

Quantum fluctuations couple to stretching bonds

Photo of Columbia's magnetic force microscope

Read-out of Majorana qubits reveals their hidden nature

Mechanism could pave the way for more robust quantum computation, but questions remain over scalability

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

New technique for manipulating domains helps pave the way towards antiferromagnetic data storage

Metallic material breaks 100-year thermal conductivity record

Transition metal nitride conducts heat nearly three times better than copper

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

Schematic diagram showing the structure of the barocaloric solution. Blue ovals labelled "SCN-" and "NH4+" are surrounded by red-and-white ball-and-stick models of water molecules, disrupting the water's hydrogen bonding.

Fluid gears make their debut

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

Photo of a circular tank, taken from above, showing two containers and swirling green fluids around them

New sensor uses topological material to detect helium leaks

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

Diagram showing white cylinders arranged in a triangular pattern and connected by white tubes. A series of three smaller diagrams shows the device from different angles and the location of gas inlets.

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

New use for photolithography could have applications for data storage

Photo of three researchers in white clean room gear, pictured in a laboratory

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

A still from a video that shows the motion of atoms (modelled as coloured spheres) against a grid

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

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