Physics

Scheme of the transfer learning procedure from a pre-trained body through the Multi-Head approach. Credit: Communications Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42005-025-02248-1 Differential equations are fundamental tools in physics: they are used to describe phenomena ranging from fluid dynamics to general relativity. But when these equations become stiff (i.e. they involve very different scales or highly sensitive […]

Marie Curie and her daughter Irene were both scientists studying radioactivity. Credit: Wellcome Collection, CC BY The adage goes “like mother like daughter,” and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words were never spoken. She was the daughter of two Nobel Prize laureates, Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, and was herself awarded the Nobel

Schematic illustration of nanoclusters (red) separated in a liquid-like state within a supercritical fluid and the corresponding neutron beam scattering signals. Credit: POSTECH A supercritical fluid refers to a state in which the temperature and pressure of a substance exceed its critical point, where no distinction exists between liquid and gas phases. Traditionally, it has

The distillation plant ‘made in Münster’ for the dark matter experiment ‘XENONnT’ at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory almost completely removes interfering signals caused by the radioactive decay of radon. Credit: Henning Schulze Eißing In their search for dark matter, scientists from the XENON Collaboration are using one of the world’s most sensitive dark matter

Schematic illustration of the tensor-train (TT) decomposition of the Boltzmann tensor F and its application to computing the configurational integral. Credit: Physical Review Materials (2025). DOI: 10.1103/xrbw-xr49 Researchers from The University of New Mexico and Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a novel computational framework that addresses a longstanding challenge in statistical physics. The Tensors

Motion of magnetic soliton in an atomic ring and creation of superfluid currents. Credit: G. Brochier. Bloch oscillations are periodic oscillations of quantum particles in a repeating energy “landscape” (e.g., a crystal lattice) that are subjected to a constant force. These particle motions have been the focus of numerous physics studies, as they are intriguing

Simulated gluon field in the nucleus. When energy increases, the nucleus grows and its internal structure changes. Credit: Björn Schenke. A researcher, Heikki Mäntysaari from the University of Jyväskylä (Finland), has been part of an international research group that has made significant advances in modeling heavy ion collisions. New computer models provide additional information about

The STAR detector at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory Members of the STAR collaboration, a group of physicists collecting and analyzing data from particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), have published a new high-precision analysis of data on the number of protons produced in gold-ion smashups

The outer detector of the LZ dark matter experiment. Credit: Matt Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Laboratory Determining the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our universe, is one of the greatest puzzles in physics. New results from the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector, LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), have

Example of collective motion, known as “flocking”, in nature. A murmuration of Baikal teal that resembles a dolphin, observed in South Korea. Credit: Dongjo Kim, Seoul National University College of Engineering Researchers at Seoul National University and Kyung Hee University report a framework to control collective motions, such as ring, clumps, mill, flock, by training