Planetary scientists have proposed a solution to the centuries-old problem of why the Moon’s far side bulges at its equator. Ian Garrick-Bethell and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Spin-orbit coupling – a ubiquitous interaction in condensed-matter physics – has been simulated in ultracold neutral atoms for the first time by physicists in the US. Their experiment involves firing ...

Spin–orbit entangled local moments in the iridate material Na 2 IrO 3 are subject to strong exchange frustration, driving the system towards a spin-liquid phase with emergent fractional excitations.

Gaurav Khanna receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Robert Penrose is a theoretical physicist who works on black holes, and his work has influenced not just me but my entire ...

Note: The following article contains spoilers about the Netflix series 3 Body Problem. I first encountered the three-body problem 60 years ago, in a short story called “Placet is a Crazy Place” by ...