A model that captures how crater-forming impacts redistribute lunar dirt will help researchers read the cosmic timeline found in samples returned from the Moon.

Researchers have determined that a neutral oxygen-vacancy center is as long-lived as the more familiar negatively charged nitrogen vacancy.

Researchers propose a new way to evaluate the performance of quantum memory devices, which will be key components in a future quantum Internet.

A microscope video analysis has provided new details about molecular motion inside the nuclei of cancer cells.

A key property of superconductors called superfluid stiffness can now be measured in a wide range of 2D systems.

A new theory of rare recurrent events dispenses with the simplifying assumption that recent events lack memory of previous ones.

Two research teams have run small-scale demonstrations of voting protocols that could ensure election security using the principles of quantum mechanics.

The sharpest-ever images of the solar surface reveal extensive plasma vortices that could explain energy transport through the Sun’s atmosphere.

A new algorithm combines AI weather forecasts with a physics-based climate model to efficiently characterize rare and dangerous weather events.

Two types of ant colonies—one that experiences sudden bursts of activity and one that doesn’t—exemplify two distinct phases of collective behavior.