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Two research teams have used eye-tracking methods to learn how students approach complex physics problems.

A Lightweight Among Heavyweights Physics 14, s43 × Discovering new isotopes is like the stamp collecting of physics, but the consequences of adding to the set are much further reaching. A team of researchers using the Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou, China, has now expanded the collection with the discovery of the lightest uranium isotope to date [1]. The finding could have implications for our understanding of a particular type of radioactive decay that is still mysterious despite more than a century of work. Uranium is an inherently unstable element. All of its isotopes are radioact...

Hidden Magnetic Structures Revealed Physics 14, s31 Researchers capture the previously hidden twists of spins in the domain wall of a “proper” antiferromagnetic material, chromium oxide. M. Wörnle/ETH Zurich × “Interesting but useless,” is how Louis Néel famously described antiferromagnets, materials for whose discovery he was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in physics. Jump forward 50 years and these materials are trending among condensed-matter physicists, who are exploring their use in next-generation information-processing and storage devices. But to take the step from useless to ...

Many countries in the Middle East and Western Asia have exceptionally high levels of participation of women in STEM fields—a matter for reflection and celebration on International Women’s Day.

An Atom Pushed to Its Speed Limit February 19, 2021• Physics 14, 26 Researchers have transported an atom between two locations in the shortest possible time, an achievement that has implications for quantum technologies. A. Alberti/Univ. of Bonn Keep it movin’. Researchers used an atomic conveyor belt to find the top speed at which atoms can be moved without disturbing their quantum states. A. Alberti/Univ. of Bonn Keep it movin’. Researchers used an atomic conveyor belt to find the top speed at which atoms can be moved without disturbing their quantum states.× Moving informatio...