Physicists Discover Magnetic Mechanism That Challenges a 300-Year-Old Law of Friction Researchers found friction can occur without contact, driven by magnetic dynamics, and does not always increase with load. The effect could enable controllable, wear-free technologies.

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Scientists Smash Superconductivity Record at Normal Pressure Scientists have set a new record for superconductivity at normal pressure, bringing the field closer to practical, real-world applications.

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Scientists Crack Key Barrier to High-Temperature Superconductivity A subtle shift in how materials are engineered may be redefining the future of superconductivity.

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Is glass liquid or solid? Picosecond X-ray technology offers new breakthrough for this 80-year physics mystery! Innovative HEPS design directly probes the liquid-to-solid transition in amorphous materials.
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Physicists Crack the Question of Why Basketball Shoes Squeak Physicists Crack the Question of Why Basketball Shoes Squeak: It’s all about the ridges.

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The physics of squeaking sneakers Geometry of tread patterns determines frequency, so blocks were designed to play Star Wars music.

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Twisting Atoms Unlock a Powerful New Way To Control Electrons A new breakthrough in orbitronics reveals that atomic vibrations can control the orbital motion of electrons.

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A new graphic illustrating a 'hydraulic jump' in flowing electrons, from today's story at Quanta: www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-m...

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Mysterious State of Matter Discovered Flowing Inside Earth's Core The 'superionic phase' is real.

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This Crystal Doesn’t Melt Like Ice: Physicists Capture a Strange New Phase New research offers clearer insight into how phase transitions unfold at the atomic scale in real materials. When ice turns into water, the change happens almost instantly. Once the melting temperature...

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Exotic Particles Called Anyons Unlock New Path to Superconductivity All the science news you can handle in a single feed

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New Ice XXI Emerges When Water Is Crushed to Extreme Pressures A microsecond freeze under crushing pressure has revealed Ice XXI, an entirely new form of ice. The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS, President Lee Ho Seong) has recorded water...

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Physics Just Got Flatter: 2D Weyl Semimetals and Fermi Strings All the science news you can handle in a single feed

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Gold Breaks Its Shape Under Planet Crushing Pressures All the science news you can handle in a single feed

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Physicists Create First-Ever Visible “Time Crystal” Physicists have created a visible, self-sustaining “time crystal” using swirling liquid crystals that move in endlessly repeating patterns when illuminated. Imagine a clock that runs forever without...

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New evidence sheds light on mystery of ‘magic-angle’ graphene’s superconductivity Best evidence yet points to unconventional superconductivity in twisted layer material

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In this letter, Wang et al. study the changes in dirac points induced by breaking P, T, and sixfold rotational symmetry (C6), based on two structurally similar materials, EuAgBi and BaAgBi.
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New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities In the mid-19th century, the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau — who had been designing and conducting scientific experiments since he was a child — submerged loops of wire in a soapy solution and...

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Scientists Finally Peek Inside an “Impossible” Superconductor High-pressure electron tunneling spectroscopy reveals the presence of a superconducting gap in H₃S and D₃S. Superconductors are special materials that allow electricity to flow without any resistance,...

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MIT’s Magic-Angle Graphene Just Changed Superconductivity MIT researchers uncovered clear evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene. Their new measurement system revealed a sharp, V-shaped superconducting gap — proof...

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Secret Atomic Patterns Have Been Discovered Hidden Inside Metals All the science news you can handle in a single feed

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A brief intro to altermagnetism Experiments only directly confirmed the existence of this type of magnetic material last year but it’s already making waves

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Ice That Freezes at Room Temperature Discovered in X-Ray Laser Experiment Meet ice XXI.

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Scientists Find Secret Atomic Patterns in Common Metals, Challenging Decades of Theory MIT researchers found that a hidden atomic order can persist in metals even after they undergo extreme processing. For decades, scientists have known that metal alloys contain subtle chemical patterns,...

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Strange State of Water Seems to Be Both Solid And Liquid at The Same Time Weird water!

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Electrons inside graphene have been pushed to supersonic speeds Making electrons flow like a liquid is difficult, but inside graphene researchers forced them to move so fast that they created dramatic shockwaves

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Scientists Deliberately Add Defects to Graphene, Unlocking New Powers Scientists grew defective graphene using Azupyrene, making it more useful for sensors and semiconductors. The defects alter how the material interacts with other substances. Researchers have discovered...

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