In a quiet corner of low-temperature physics, researchers have stumbled on a phase of matter that seems to break one of the field’s unwritten rules: it works without well-defined particles. Instead of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A conceptual illustration of electrons spinning up and down. Scientists have described a ‘half ...

A strange, glowing form of matter called dusty plasma turns out to be incredibly sensitive to magnetic fields. Researchers found that even weak fields can change how tiny particles grow, simply by ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft unveiled a major scientific breakthrough that it believes will kick-start the quantum computing revolution. Majorana 1 is the world’s first quantum chip powered by Microsoft’s ...

Physicists are now watching matter behave in a way that defies everyday intuition, with atoms and even light itself arranging into structures that are rigid like a crystal yet able to flow like a ...

At TU Wien, researchers have discovered a state in a quantum material that had previously been considered impossible. The definition of topological states should be generalized. The work is published ...

Electricity powers our lives, including our cars, phones, computers and more, through the movement of electrons within a circuit. While we can’t see these electrons, electric currents moving through a ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Physicists created time quasicrystals, an entirely new state of matter. Unlike time crystals, which ...

Liquid crystal is a state of matter that exhibits properties of both liquid and solid. It can flow like a liquid, while its constituent molecules are aligned as in a solid. Liquid crystal is widely ...

TL;DR: Microsoft has introduced the Majorana 1 quantum computing chip, featuring a new "state of matter" and designed to accommodate up to 1 million qubits. Microsoft has just unveiled its new ...