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Beneath all of the complex and formidable mathematical structures that formulate physical laws rest simple but deep nuggets of truth. It is these simple truths, and not the complicated technical details, that scientists strive for when uncovering the laws...

Prof. Amir Yacoby is one of 20 U.S. scientists awarded the grant for Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems (EPiQS) investigations by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Each investigator will receive $1.6 million of unrestricted support over the next...

A diatomic molecule consists of two atoms, held together by a chemical bond. But these molecules are more than just a pair of atoms: if one atom is different from the other, the molecules become polar. This polarity empowers the diatomic molecules to...

The ability to fully control coherent quantum many-body systems is an exciting and rapidly developing frontier. Besides quantum information processing, controlled many-body systems can enable new insights into strongly correlated phases of matter. On this...

A new data set reveals just how bad AI is at reasoning—and suggests that a new hybrid approach might be the best way forward. Questions, questions: Known as CLEVRER, the data set consists of 20,000 short synthetic video clips and more than 300,000...

THE SECOND KIND OF IMPOSSIBLE tells one of the strangest scientific stories that you will ever hear – a thirty-five year quest for new forms of matter, known as quasicrystals, that violate scientific principles that had been established for centuries. The...

Magic-angle graphene captured the attention of condensed-matter physicists in 2018 when it was discovered that this material—made of two sheets of graphene with slightly misaligned lattice orientations—is a superconductor. Moreover, observations showed...

Rydberg molecules are giant molecules made up of tens or hundreds of atoms bound to a Rydberg atom. These molecules have a permanent dipole (i.e., a pair of oppositely charged or magnetized poles), as one of their atoms is in a highly excited state...

Prof. Lisa Randall is this year's recipient the Oskar Klein medal and the Oskar Klein Memorial Lecturer. The Oskar Klein Memorial Lectures are sponsored by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences through its Nobel Committee for Physics and by Stockholm...

Prof. David R. Nelson has been awarded the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour for 2019. He is a world-renowned theoretical physicist of remarkable breadth and he has made seminal contributions to the field of statistical mechanics and what became known...