IntroductionNothing escapes a black hole … or does it? In the 1970s, the physicist Stephen Hawking described a subtle process by which black holes...

Nanofluidics could be used to purify water, generate energy and build nanoscale machines. But when water flows through a carbon nanotube, classical fluid mechanics...

IntroductionBirds flock. Locusts swarm. Fish school. Within assemblies of organisms that seem as though they could get chaotic, order somehow emerges. The collective behaviors...

Matteo IppolitiDepartment of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USADepartment of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USAFind this paper...

IntroductionQuantum teleportation isn’t just science fiction; it’s entirely real and happening in laboratories today. But teleporting quantum particles and information is a far cry...

IntroductionElliptic curves are among the more beguiling objects in modern mathematics. They don’t seem complicated, but they form an expressway between the math that...

David Pérez-García1, Leonardo Santilli2,3, and Miguel Tierz11Departamento de Análisis Matemático y Matemática Aplicada, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain2Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua...

IntroductionTime seems linear to us: We remember the past, experience the present and predict the future, moving consecutively from one moment to the next....

IntroductionIt is a truth of both physics and everyday experience that things fall apart. Ice melts. Buildings crumble. Any object, if you wait long...

IntroductionIt’s the year 2718. Humanity has invented a warp drive that enables a spacecraft to hyperjump to distant solar systems and back to Earth....

IntroductionWe often talk about evolution in terms of competition, as the survival of the fittest. But if it is, then where did the widespread (and...

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry posted 09 Feb 2024 IQT’s “Journal Club” is a weekly article series that breaks down...