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The physics of novel computation: beyond bits and chips to spikes and spins

Crystal symmetry controls hydrogen’s quantum tunnelling

Discovery could support the development of safer and more efficient hydrogen storage media

Topology affects the crumpling of growing elastic sheets

Discovery could lead to new metamaterials

Heat-transfer fins give phase change materials a boost

Modelling points the way towards optimal designs for systems that store and release heat

Research headlines

Experiments provide new insights into the reverse sprinkler problem

Flows of water coming into a reverse sprinkler

Quantum entanglement explains why strange metals are so strange

Illustration showing a cubic lattice of electrons glowing with an eerie green light

Metamaterial boosts heat transfer on the nanoscale

New superconducting diode gives greater control over the flow of electrons

Device based on two-dimensional oxide interface superconductors can be “edited” using atomic force microscope lithography

New model of ocean waves sheds fresh light on the spread of microplastic pollution

Waves that decay over time can transport particles vertically as well as horizontally

New class of magnons live a hundred times longer

Discovery could help in the development of on-chip quantum information technologies that can be scaled down to the nanoscale

Venus flytraps snap shut by rapid cell-wall softening

Previous theory of water transport is ruled out

Altermagnets can turn neighbouring materials altermagnetic, too

"Proximity effect" appears in models of semiconductor/altermagnet bilayer structures

Interface between air and water gets a new twist

Vibrational spectroscopy technique reshapes our understanding of how water molecules behave at the boundary

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Static electricity: mysteries lurk within this everyday phenomenon

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Pigeons’ immune system can sense Earth’s magnetic field, study suggests

Molecules become magnetic by accumulating iron

Switchable skyrmions light up terahertz communications

A chip-sized device that can switch between two topologically protected light structures opens up a route to wireless communications that cannot be scrambled by the environment

Altermagnetic insulator shows giant magneto-optical Kerr effect

Surprising result could accelerate the development of altermagnetic spintronics with potential applications in advanced memories and logic

Four-image figure illustrating MOKE data. Images a and c show the domains themselves, which appear as boundaries between different shades of grey on a block of material. Images b and d show the MOKE signal when a square-wave magnetic field is applied to the material.

Hyperuniformity can be altered by ‘weighting’ many-particle systems

Calculations reveal the richness of systems that have crystal-like and liquid-like properties

Scientists find a new critical point in supercooled water

X-ray experiments provide further evidence that water exists in two distinct phases

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

A 2x2 grid of diagrams. One column is labelled "high humidity" and the other is labelled "low humidity" The top row contains ball-and-stick chemical models, while the bottom row contains a more simplified, structural view. In both cases, the high humidity column has a hexagonal ordering, whereas the low humidity column shows a layered structure.

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

Miniature magnets break field strength record

New coiled device could rival expensive magnet facilities, say scientists

Magnetic friction defies centuries-old law

Sensing and programmable metamaterials could benefit from discovery

Pressure quench increases superconducting transition temperature

New protocol could lead to ambient-pressure room-temperature superconductivity

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

Photo of a speaker, which resembles a metallic plunger, suspending a tiny sphere of silica above a silica plate

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

Illustration of excitons arranging into a solid pattern

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