Physicists have transformed a decades-old technique for simplifying quantum equations into a reusable, user-friendly ...

Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have reported new experimental results that advance our understanding of reaction dynamics and exotic nuclear ...

Shaping up: A new machine learning algorithm helps physicists reconstruct the shapes of particle accelerator beams from tiny amounts of training data. (Courtesy: Greg Steward/SLAC National Accelerator ...

Analogue interaction Illustration of how an impurity atom may gradually evolve into a quasiparticle by interacting with a surrounding medium. This mechanism is similar to how an electron can distort a ...

Most of us are familiar with the legend of Newton?s apple, which fell on his head and triggered his musings about the Universal Law of Gravitation. An unlikely but apocryphal story. Fewer of us are ...