A microscopic diving board can cheat the second law of thermodynamics
Not all diving boards obey the laws of thermodynamicsvm/Getty Images A microscopic version of a diving board has been driven to cheat the second law of thermodynamics 95 per cent…
Physicists are grappling with their own reproducibility crisis
Some claims of high-temperature superconductivity were unable to be recreatedShutterstock / Dragon Claws Physics is in a crisis. Over the past year, a series of research papers claimed to find…
Doughnut-shaped swirls of laser light can be used to transmit images
Smoke rings are similar to the vortices created in laser lightYevhen Rychko / Alamy Stock Photo Short pulses from a laser can be twisted into a series of doughnut-like vortices,…
The blessing and the curse of the axion’s rise in US particle physics
Since the Large Hadron Collider turned up nothing in its search for supersymmetry, physicists have turned their attention to the axion, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a self-described superfan of this hypothetical…
