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Conceptual image showing blue magnetic field lines leaving both ends of a dipole and connecting in the middle

Applied magnetic field flips a material’s thermal expansion

IBM’s 127-qubit processor shows quantum advantage without error correction

Quantum error mitigation used to calculate 2D Ising model

Lined-up quantum dots become highly conductive

Semiconducting nanostructures behave like metals when placed in quasi-two-dimensional superlattices

Incoming president of The Electrochemical Society aims to spark change

As the new president of The Electrochemical Society, Gerardine Botte wants to inspire a broader awareness and understanding of the importance of electrochemical technologies for ch...

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Artwork showing the chemical symbol for tantalum (Ta), its atomic number (73) and atomic mass (180.947) glowing orange on a grey background

Tantalum polyhydride joins emerging class of high-pressure superconductors

Diagram of a flat sheet of germanene, a two-dimensional, graphene-like form of the element germanium. Red and blue arrows representing spin and current flow line the edges of the sheet, showing how the material can carry electricity along its edges with no resistance

Graphene’s ‘cousin’ makes a switchable topological insulator

Photo of the 48-um-diameter sphere of superconducting material, which resembles a tiny ball bearing that is levitating above a chip with wires in it

Magnetic trap keeps a superconducting microsphere levitated and stable

Palladium oxides could make better superconductors

New calculations reveal that palladates remain superconducting at higher temperatures than cuprates or nickelates

Photonic time crystal amplifies microwaves

New 2D metamaterial could boost 6G telecoms

Exchange bias in a single-layer film is created using ion implantation

New approach could be used to create antiferromagnetic spintronics devices

Cubic ice observed in pure form for the first time

Unusual phase develops when water freezes on interfaces at low temperatures

Giant magnetoresistance spotted in near-pristine graphene

Room-temperature effect could find use in magnetic sensors

Giant orbital magnetic moment appears in a graphene quantum dot

New discovery could be important for quantum information science and magnetic field sensing

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Dynamic nuclear polarization: how a technique from particle physics is transforming medical imaging

Jack Miller looks at the power of “dynamic nuclear polarization” in medicine

Conceptual graphic showing red and green wires weaving around each other through space and time on a series of chip-like platforms

New type of quasiparticle emerges to tame quantum computing errors

The existence of so-called non-Abelian anyons has been reported by four independent teams, though plenty of challenges remain, writes Philip Ball

Evidence for ‘near-ambient’ superconductivity found in lutetium hydride

Superconductivity has been observed at temperatures up to 20 °C in a nitrogen-doped material

Thinner antiferroelectrics become ferroelectric

Size reduction can turn on unexpected properties in oxide materials

Sound mimics gravity in experiment that simulates convection in stars and planets

Simulation could shed light on magnetic geodynamos

The angle and alignment of each layer enables the researchers to turn superconductivity on and off with a short electric pulse

Short electrical pulses switch superconductivity on and off in magic-angle graphene

New finding could help in the development of novel switchable superconducting electronics

Sketch of a two-phase equilibrium in which yellow spherical particles float above a forest of purple-blue rod-like particles

Colloidal mixture exists in up to six phases at once

Finding could help scientists predict the phase stability of materials like paint and mayonnaise

New type of fractal emerges in spin ices

Finding could have applications in magnetocaloric materials, spintronics, information storage and even quantum computing

This collage depicts elements related to ionocaloric cooling, a newly developed refrigeration cycle that researchers hope could help phase out refrigerants that contribute to global warming.

Ionocaloric cooling makes a new type of refrigerator

Technique could replace current systems that rely on vapour compression of powerful greenhouse gases

Dark spins could boost the performance of diamond-based quantum devices

Studies show how surface defects interact with NV centres

Illustration representing the friction between the tip of an atomic force microscope and graphene "Moiré" superstructures. The tip looks like a grey cone and the superstructures are represented by red hexagonal areas on a blue background

Friction at the microscale depends unexpectedly on sliding speed

New finding could have applications for hard disks and moving components for satellites or space telescopes

At extremely high pressure – hundreds of times higher than that found at the bottom of the ocean – boron arsenide’s thermal conductivity begins to decrease

Surprising heat transfer behaviour seen in new semiconductor under pressure

The anomalous behaviour of boron arsenide under pressure could change the way we think about heat transport under extreme conditions, like those found in the Earth’s interior

Quasicrystal found in ‘fossilized lightning’

Rare material is made from fused metal and sand

Water-based switch outpaces semiconductor devices

Laser pulses turn water temporarily into a metal

Phasons boost thermal conductivity of incommensurate crystals

Phonon-like quasiparticles could be used in thermal logic circuits

A van der Waals MTJ based on a semiconducting tungsten diselenide spacer layer less than 10 nm thick, sandwiched between two ferromagnetic iron gallium telluride electrodes

Large tunnel magnetoresistance appears at room temperature in a miniaturized magnetic tunnel junction

New work on 2D van der Waals materials could aid the development of next-generation non-volatile spintronic memories

A droplet of superconducting mercury levitating above a surface

Mercury’s superconductivity explained at long last

Researchers unearth a hitherto undescribed electron screening effect that promotes superconductivity in the first superconductor ever discovered

Diagram of the superconducting quantum chip used in the experiment., showing four qubits (represented as spheres) interacting above a circuit-like plane

Geometric tensor measured in a superconducting quantum circuit

First measurement in a non-Abelian system will be useful for studies of complex systems, with implications for quantum computation and quantum simulation

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