Photographer Chris Elkinton set off one windy December day to Cape Disappointment State Park in Washington, hoping to capture images of the rough, roiling seas and colliding waves during a “king tide.

Using sheets of light to corral waves of ultracold atoms, researchers have created an experimental platform for studying the event horizons of black holes. Making waves. Researchers have created a ...

Researchers have used radio observations of rapidly spinning neutron stars to search for signals from supermassive black hole pairs at the dawn of galaxy formation. In our lifetimes, an amazing thing ...

Experiments show that bundling of individual strands of an important protein polymer can occur through capillary forces, not just through molecular binding. Separated at birth. The chromosomes (blue) ...

A device that stores a single positron and controls its quantum states could measure its magnetic moment with unprecedented precision, testing a symmetry principle central to quantum field theory.

According to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, both the position and momentum of a quantum particle cannot be known with unlimited precision. In 1965, theorists showed that this principle does not ...

Figure 1: Moore and his colleagues measured the momentum kick imparted by a single gas molecule on an optically levitated silica nanoparticle (center) [2]. Thanks to the isolation offered by setups ...

A technique known as ghost imaging has been adapted so that an object can be imaged by discarding all photons that interact with it. Split a beam of light in two and direct one beam (the reference) to ...

An ultrafast optical technique uncovers new clues to the origin of bulk polarization in quantum ferroelectric materials. In classical ferroelectric materials, electric dipoles in the material line up ...