A newly designed optical centrifuge allows scientists to control molecular rotation inside superfluid helium nano-droplets.

The British-American theoretical physicist Anthony Leggett died on 8 March at the age of 87. Leggett shared the 2003 Nobel ...

Scientists at MIT have directly captured signs of “second sound” in a superfluid for the first time. This bizarre phenomenon occurs when heat moves like sound waves through an unusual state of matter.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When science dips into the quantum realm, things can get a bit strange—and that includes foundational ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of Australian researchers has proposed an instrument called ODIN (Optomechanical Dark-matter Instrument) that can allow ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron pairs would be spontaneously created out of nothing, through a phenomenon ...

It may sound unbelievable, but new research suggests that instead of being featureless, dark matter could actually behave like a cosmic superfluid, forming swirling vortex lines and stable rotating ...

Domain walls: MRI image of superfluid helium-3 where the boundaries between regions of different chirality appear as dark vertical lines. (Courtesy: J Kasai et al/Phys. Rev. Lett.) Topological domains ...

Being small is good. Being very small is better. That is the philosophy of Mark Kester, University of Virginia professor of biomedical engineering, pharmacology and molecular physiology and biophysics ...