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The quirky temperature dependence of liquid silica’s viscosity comes from the liquid equivalent of crystal defects, according to new simulations.

A scattered laser beam’s interaction with itself creates a motion-detection method precise enough to determine whether a trapped particle is in its ground state.

Simulations suggest that thermal fluctuations combined with macroscopic forces could be used to quickly generate specific configurations of few-atom nanoclusters.

At very low volume, a quantum optical microphone performs better than a classical device, and humans can hear the difference.

A laser nudges deuterium molecules into friction-free motion within a superfluid.

Iron-rich rocks in Minnesota give a proxy view into how aqueous interactions with Martian rocks could have shaped that planet’s early environment.

A model attributes the propagating bands that appear in a compressed porous medium to structural changes alone.

By etching nanostructures into ultraviolet-generating materials, researchers show that they can manipulate the outgoing light in ways that aren’t otherwise possible.  

A newly demonstrated device could lead to the creation of entangled pairs of phonons.

A liquid-metal jet can strip electrons from a high-intensity, accelerator-based ion beam, increasing the beam’s charge and enhancing accelerator performance.