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What would it take to transform a flat sheet into a human face? How would the sheet need to grow and shrink to form eyes that are concave, a nose that’s convex, and a chin that protrudes? How to encode and release complex curves in shape-shifting...

For the first time, researchers have captured images of the formation of individual viruses, offering a real-time view into the kinetics of viral assembly. The research provides new insights into how to fight viruses and engineer self-assembling particles...

If there’s one thing LaNell Williams wants women of color interested in studying physics at top institutions to know, it’s this: You can do this. Williams is a Ph.D. student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences working in the lab of Wagner Family...

The computing world was abuzz last week after Google scientists announced they’d passed a key threshold in which an experimental quantum computer solved a problem in just minutes that a classical computer would take years —10,000 by Google’s count — to...

Common wisdom about conventional antiferromagnets is that their low-energy physics is governed by spin–wave excitations. However, new experiments on several cuprate compounds have challenged this concept. An enhanced thermal Hall response in the pseudogap...

Experimental music from experimental physics, ColliderScope is a musical project of Lawrence Lee, a Postdoctoral Fellow working at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. With a unique form of audio synthesis, waveforms are designed to show images from the...

ZHI-XUN SHEN Paul Pigott professor of Physical Sciences, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University Professor of Photon Science, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Monday, November 4, 2019, @4:30pm Jefferson Lab 250 Colloquium: "Angle...

In May of 2019, as part of Nature's 150th anniversary, its editors asked readers aged between 18 and 25 to enter an essay competition. The task was to tell, in no more than 1,000 words, what scientific advance they would most like to see in their...