Flow is an energized mental state that occurs when a person is totally focused and immersed in an activity and the challenge matches a person's level of skill. Being "in the zone" is another way of ...

Most people assume humans only have two brain hemispheres—but we actually have four brain hemispheres. There are two "big" hemispheres in the cerebrum that house the cerebral cortex and are commonly ...

The British-American theoretical physicist Anthony Leggett died on 8 March at the age of 87. Leggett shared the 2003 Nobel ...

Helium nanodroplets offer a unique medium for realising and exploring quantum fluid behaviour at ultralow temperatures. These nanoscale clusters of helium atoms, which exist in a superfluid state ...

Supersolids are a new form of quantum matter that has only recently been demonstrated. The state of matter can be produced artificially in ultracold, dipolar quantum gases. A team has now demonstrated ...

Spin waves, a change in electron spin that propagates through a material, could fundamentally change how devices store and carry information. These waves, also known as magnons, don't scatter or ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Scientists have officially spotted characteristics of superfluidity (a quantum fluid with zero viscosity) ...

Physicists have identified a new superfluid phase in a class of quantum systems that, until recently, looked too unstable and lossy to host such delicate order. Instead of destroying quantum coherence ...

The 'sloshing' of a quantum fluid comprised of light and matter reveals superfluid properties. An Australian-led team of physicists have successfully created sloshing quantum liquids in a 'bucket' ...

A team of quantum physicists from Innsbruck, Austria, led by three-time ERC laureate Francesca Ferlaino has established a new method to observe vortices in dipolar quantum gases. These quantum ...

Three researchers won the Nobel Prize in Physics this morning for developing seminal theories that explain an important type of superconductivity and a related phenomenon known as superfluidity. Their ...