Researchers using custom fabricated nanostructures that 'trap' light have created a new exotic state of matter with light at room temperature ...

As binary neutron stars spiral around each other to merge, their gravitational tidal forces distort each other's shape and ...

Plasma happens when gas gets heated to a very high temperature and the atoms lose their electrons. Find out more about this state of matter. Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org and the free ...

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created a new and unusual state of matter—known as a supersolid—by ...

At temperatures approaching absolute zero, most magnetic materials settle into tidy patterns. Their tiny magnetic moments, or spins, align in one of two ways: all pointing in the same direction in ...

Researchers were shocked to discover that what was thought to be a quantum state is actually an entirely new phase of matter.

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At TU Wien, researchers have discovered a state in a quantum material that had previously been considered impossible. The definition of topological states should be generalized. The work is published ...

Quantum physics has quietly been rewriting the rulebook on matter, and the latest breakthroughs suggest that the so‑called fifth state is no longer a niche laboratory curiosity. From orbiting ...

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Microsoft's Majorana 1 chip includes eight topological quantum bits. Microsoft claims that building its first quantum-computing chip required that it create a new state of matter, which it is ...

At temperatures approaching absolute zero, most magnetic materials settle into tidy patterns. Their tiny magnetic moments, or ...