Physicists have identified a new superfluid phase in a class of quantum systems that, until recently, looked too unstable and ...

A stable "exceptional fermionic superfluid," a new quantum phase that intrinsically hosts singularities known as exceptional ...

New research offers clearer insight into how phase transitions unfold at the atomic scale in real materials. When ice turns into water, the change happens almost instantly. Once the melting ...

For more than a century, schoolbook physics has divided matter into neat categories like solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. A ...

The transition of a physical system from one phase to another is familiar from everyday life. Water, for example, can be a solid (ice), a liquid or a gas (steam), and a change in temperature causes ...

With the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics due to be announced on Tuesday 8 October, Physics World journalists pick their favourite Nobel awards from the past. Here Hamish Johnston argues the case for the ...

We've spent the last several days on a family vacation in Mexico, at a resort south of Playa del Carmen, where I have taken a number of really crappy pictures of sunrises. Not because I'm bad at ...