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The physics of ice cream: food scientist Douglas Goff talks about this remarkable material

Squishy silicone rings shine a spotlight on fluid-solid transition

Model shows how highly deformable particles, grains and cells respond to external forces

Physicists close in on fractionally-charged electron mystery in graphene

Topological flat band may account for fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect recently observed in pentalayer moiré graphene

Quantized vortices seen in a supersolid for the first time

Further research could shed light on neutron-star glitches

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A bright white wave peak passes through spheres of red and blue arrows pointing outward, resembling spiky hedgehogs

Orbital angular momentum monopoles appear in a chiral crystal

The equipment used to perform the Zel'dovich experiment

Rotating cylinder amplifies electromagnetic fields

A nickel-based material belonging to the langbeinite family could be a new three-dimensional quantum spin liquid candidate

Nickel langbeinite might be a new quantum spin liquid candidate

New superconductor has record breaking current density

Rare-earth barium copper oxide structure also has the highest pinning force ever reported

Dancing humans embody topological properties

Choreographed high school students have fun simulating curious phase of matter

Superconductivity appears in nickelate crystals under pressure

Could nickel-oxide-based compounds be a new class of high-temperature superconductors?

Spins hop between quantum dots in new quantum processor

Hopping-based logic achieved at high fidelity

Spin-ice superconductors display magnetic nonreciprocity

New structure could be used to make magnetic-field-driven superconducting diodes for low-energy-consumption electronic devices

Liquid–metal interfaces show large thermoelectric effect

Discovery could help us better understand Jupiter’s magnetic field as well as improve liquid–metal batteries

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Matin Durrani winces at the time he met Nobel laureate Robert Laughlin

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A musician and an artist on a large stage in front of an enormous screen showing a painting

Akiko Nakayama: the Japanese artist skilled in fluid mechanics

Sidney Perkowitz explores the science behind the work of Japanese painter Akiko Nakayama

A breezy tour of what gaseous materials do for us

Margaret Harris reviews It’s a Gas: the Magnificent and Elusive Elements that Expand Our World by Mark Miodownik

Spot the knot: using AI to untangle the topology of molecules

Solving a centuries-old mathematical puzzle could hold the key to understanding the function of many of the molecules of life

Aperiodicity: the dance event bringing non-repeating patterns to life

Matin Durrani reviews Aperiodic – an art-science performance from South West Dance Theatre

Could athletes mimic basilisk lizards and turn water-running into an Olympic sport?

Ahead of the 2024 Olympics, Nicole Sharp investigates nature’s most extraordinary sprinters

Scanning electron micrograph image showing wires and the location of the two quantum dots used in the experiment

‘Poor man’s Majoranas’ offer testbed for studying possible qubits

A new approach could put Majorana particles on track to become a novel qubit platform, but some scientists doubt the results’ validity

Artist's drawing of graphene membranes, represented as overlapping hexagons of carbon atoms

Domain walls in twisted graphene make 1D superconductors

Structures could have applications in future electronic devices

Protecting phone screens with non-Newtonian fluids

Fluids that get runnier during impact are optimized for preventing damage to phone screens

Scanning tunnelling microscopy image of the Wigner crystal, which appears as a grid of triangular shapes containing blue-coloured circles in their interiors and red around the edges. Each blue circular region contains a single localized electron.

Wigner crystal appears in bilayer graphene

First direct observations made of a lattice structure consisting solely of electrons

Stefano Bonetti in his lab at Stockholm University

Laser light makes a material magnetic

Researchers demonstrate a new way to induce a relatively large magnetic moment in room-temperature materials

Electron microscope picture of a collection of multicore globules

Mixing water and oil: no surfactants needed

New finding could have implications for industries that use emulsions

Christopher Simon holds a crystal of lithium holmium yttrium fluoride in his gloved hand

Quantum Barkhausen noise detected for the first time

Cooperative tunnelling of spins creates magnetic "avalanches" in a crystalline quantum magnet

Giant quantum tornado behaves like a black hole in miniature

Swirling vortex in superfluid helium could let researchers study rotating curved space–times in the lab

Hexagonal lattice with a beam of light through a hole

Meet the ‘quantum plumbers’ uncovering the mysteries of fluid mechanics at the nanoscale

Philip Ball investigates the strange quantum effects that control water flow in carbon nanotubes

Photo of Takasada Shibauchi in his laboratory looking at a screen next to a microscope

Heat capacity measurements reveal Majorana fermions

Researchers in Japan and Korea say they have found evidence for the existence of these elusive quasiparticles in the thermodynamic behaviour of a Kitaev magnet

REBCO high-temperature superconductors are ideal for tokamak magnets, study suggests

Extensive research confirms material’s ability to create compact yet powerful fields

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