Researchers in the UK, China and Germany have come up with a new and useful way to couple light to the surface of a metamaterial. The technique is the first to ensure that the coupling occurs in a ...

Brownian boomerangs: trajectory of a boomerang particle in water, starting from the top of the image, with the blue line tracking the point where the arms meet and the red line tracking the "centre of ...

Already, however, the potassium–helium-3 spin gyroscope provides sensitivity to new physics, such as violations of Lorentz symmetry, that is comparable to the best previous tests 7. Thus the work of ...

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The experimental observation of superconductivity that breaks spin-rotation symmetry in copper-doped Bi 2 Se 3 provides a qualitatively distinct kind of unconventional superconducting behaviour — one ...

Back in December, I praised SyFy's new space opera The Expanse for getting gravity right by understanding the Equivalence Principle. This is the idea that the effects of gravity and acceleration ...

As boring as it may sound, the direction that toilet bowl water swirls at the equator has more to do with the toilet's manufacturer than it does any physics phenomena. It is a commonly held ...