When sand grains wedge together in a funnel, the whole column locks up. Something strikingly similar can happen to quantum ...

Experiments reveal that metallic nanoparticles thousands of atoms wide can exist in quantum superposition, providing a stringent test of quantum mechanics. Matter wave in the spotlight: The image ...

Be fast, avoid light, and roll through a curvy ramp: This is the recipe for a pioneering experiment proposed by theoretical physicists. An object evolving in a potential created through electrostatic ...

A team of researchers mapped out how flecks of 2D materials move in liquid -- knowledge that could help scientists assemble macroscopic-scale materials with the same useful properties as their 2D ...

Complex multiscale dynamics are inherent to materials, where the interconnection across molecular, microscopic, and macroscopic levels is key to understanding their fundamental mechanisms. A prime ...

The puzzle of emergence asks how regularities emerge on macro scales out of uncountable constituent parts. A new framework has researchers hopeful that a solution is near. A few centuries ago, the ...