Can light behave like a whirlwind? It turns out it can—and such "optical tornadoes" have now been created in an extremely ...

Researchers at the Würzburg site of the Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat have succeeded in transferring the topological quantum ...

Light usually travels in straight lines, but what if it could twist, spiral, and ...

A strange form of matter called a time crystal has fascinated physicists for about a decade. These systems move in repeating cycles, even without a steady external push. Now, researchers at New York ...

Scientists observe a visible time crystal for the first time, revealing a phase of matter that repeats patterns through time.

The world of physics is being redefined with the creation of an extraordinary material that challenges the established laws of matter. This groundbreaking innovation merges two materials previously ...

EurekAlert!—In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used liquid crystals, the same materials that are in your phone display, to create such a clock—or, at least, as close ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NYU physicists discover a simple time crystal using levitated foam beads and sound waves, revealing motion that breaks classic ...