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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 ...

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 ...

Space junk poses a growing threat to vital satellite services. Scientists at CU Boulder are developing an electrostatic ...

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.

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 ...