Just as flight simulators can offer a trainee pilot insight into what it might be like to fly an aeroplane in real life, quantum simulators help physicists to understand the complex quantum behaviour ...

Characterizing particles and understanding bulk powder behavior is critical to get the best pharma product. It is well known that particle characterization is an important consideration when ensuring ...

Active matter: this microscope image shows part of a cluster of self-propelled particles, colour-coded according to their distance from the centre. (Courtesy: Jie Zhang, Ricard Alert, Jing Yan, Ned S ...

Researchers at Princeton University have begun crystallizing light as part of an effort to answer fundamental questions about the physics of matter. The researchers are not shining light through ...

Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though ...