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Russians return to Earth after filming first movie in space A Russian actress and a film director returned to Earth Sunday after spending 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS) shooting scenes for the first movie in orbit.
NASA's asteroid hunter Lucy soars into sky with diamonds A NASA spacecraft named Lucy rocketed into the sky with diamonds Saturday morning on a 12-year quest to explore eight asteroids.
New crew docks at China's first permanent space station Chinese astronauts began Saturday their six-month mission on China's first permanent space station, after successfully docking aboard their spacecraft.
China launches 3 astronauts on 6-month space station mission China on Saturday sent three astronauts to its space station for a record-setting six-month stay as the country moves toward completing the new orbiting outpost
Cooling radio waves to their quantum ground state Researchers at Delft University of Technology have found a new way to cool radio waves all the way down to their quantum ground state. To do so, they used circuits that employ an analog of the so-called laser cooling technique that is frequently used to cool atomic samples. The device used a recently developed technique the researchers call photon pressure coupling, which is predicted to be of use in detecting ultra-weak magnetic resonance (MRI) signals or for quantum-sensing applications that can help the search for dark matter. The results have been published in Science Advances.
Machine-learning system accelerates discovery of new materials for 3D printing The growing popularity of 3D printing for manufacturing all sorts of items, from customized medical devices to affordable homes, has created more demand for new 3D printing materials designed for very specific uses.
Scientists find evidence the early solar system harbored a gap between its inner and outer regions In the early solar system, a "protoplanetary disk" of dust and gas rotated around the sun and eventually coalesced into the planets we know today.
Focus: Dark Matter Alternative Passes Big Test

Author(s): Michael Schirber

A cosmological model that doesn’t require dark matter has overcome a major hurdle in matching observations from the cosmic microwave background.

[Physics 14, 143] Published Fri Oct 15, 2021

Synopsis: Inducing a Curl with a Stretch

Author(s): Katherine Wright

Patterning grooves into the surface of an elastic ribbon can cause the ribbon to curl into a tube shape when it is stretched.

[Physics 14, s130] Published Thu Oct 14, 2021

Opinion: Evaluating the Role of Scientific Awards

Author(s): Ching Jin and Brian Uzzi

Science prizes can motivate scientists to take risks and think outside the box, but data show that not all groups share in this motivating experience.     

[Physics 14, 144] Published Thu Oct 14, 2021

Can Einstein’s forgotten theory of space solve the cosmology crisis? Decades ago, Einstein concocted a theory in which space doesn't just curve, but swirls like a cyclone. Now it is making a comeback because it could fix several of the biggest problems in cosmology
Synopsis: Strong Currents Don’t Faze Salt Marsh Coastal Defenses

Author(s): Rachel Berkowitz

A model captures the influence of plant flexibility, leaves, and current on wave dissipation by a meadow of marsh plants.

[Physics 14, s126] Published Wed Oct 13, 2021

Viewpoint: Measuring the Neutron Lifetime with Record-Breaking Precision

Author(s): Shannon F. Hoogerheide

An improved version of a “bottle” experiment lets researchers lower the uncertainty on this important parameter—but a tantalizing discrepancy remains.

[Physics 14, 142] Published Wed Oct 13, 2021

Synopsis: Real-Time Monitoring of Nanoscale Polarization Switching

Author(s): Rachel Berkowitz

Researchers have visualized the nanoscale jumps in a ferroelectric’s polarization that are thought to play a key role in how well some ferroelectric devices function.

[Physics 14, s129] Published Tue Oct 12, 2021

Viewpoint: Photons Get Slippery

Author(s): Kaden Hazzard

Researchers have turned light into a superfluid by using a “synthetic” dimension, which is created by using temporal degrees of freedom to mimic spatial degrees of freedom.

[Physics 14, 139] Published Mon Oct 11, 2021

Chemistry Nobel awarded for technique to produce mirror molecules The 2021 Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David MacMillan for developing catalysts that produce molecules of a desired left or right "handedness"
Chameleon diamonds change colour when chilled in liquid nitrogen Diamonds that change colour when heated or kept in the dark have been known since 1866, but now there is a third kind
Physics Nobel awarded for work on chaotic systems such as the climate This year's winners of the Nobel prize for physics are Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi
Lunar craters could reveal past collisions with ancient black holes Black holes born in the big bang could be the dark matter physicists have sought for decades – if they exist. Now there's an audacious plan to find the scars they would have left as they punched through the moon
Ada Twist, Scientist review: Brilliant children's TV for the curious Netflix's adaptation of the bestselling picture book series Ada Twist, Scientist will be loved by children and provoke a smile from even the most jaded parents
The black hole paradox that thwarts our understanding of reality Black holes devour stuff and then shrivel away over billions of years. Explaining what happens to anything that falls in explodes our current theories of physics, says cosmologist Paul Davies
Physicists beat Lorentz reciprocity for microwave transmission New device could boost telecommunications and be adapted for photonics
Japan’s SuperKEKB set for first particle collisions Revamped accelerator will soon be smashing electrons and positrons together
Wood-based 'supermaterial' is stronger and tougher than steel New material is made by compressing treated wood
Three photons bind together to make a ‘molecule’ of light Technique could be used to create quantum-information systems
Nuclear excitation by electron capture seen at long last Breakthrough could lead to new type of energy source
Pistachio trees 'talk' to their neighbours, reveals statistical physics Ising model could account for nut production of pistachio orchards
US National Science Foundation clamps down on misconduct Agency will now require every grantee organization to report cases of sexual harassment