University of Illinois Physics Professor Paul Kwiat and members of his research group have developed a new tool for precision measurement at the nanometer scale in scenarios where background noise and ...

Tour de force Illustration of the atomic arrangement within a single lanthanide-doped nanocrystal used by Schuck’s team. Each lanthanide ion can emit light. (Courtesy: Andrew Mueller/Columbia ...

Topological materials – materials whose surface properties are very different to those in their bulk – have come to the fore in recent years and are currently revolutionizing modern condensed matter ...

Until recently, scientists had never detected black holes in the “mass gap”—now, particle physicists are exploring ideas beyond the Standard Model that could explain them. On May 21, 2019, a ripple in ...

With a dedicated monthly column, Nature Physics draws attention to metrology. And a set of Commentaries in this issue focuses on various aspects of thermometry. Physics is all about observations, ...

Six years after CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) discovered the Higgs particle, the last missing piece of the standard model, many of the biggest mysteries in physics remain. For instance, why is ...