Research Highlights

A paper in Optica shows how sound can be used to determine properties of an optical pulse.

A paper in PNAS shows how ideas from the physics of active matter can help explain the workings of a rare carnivorous plant.

An article in Physical Review Letters reports evidence that Cooper pairs exist in an anomalous metallic state.

20 years ago, the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Roy Jay Glauber, Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch and John Lewis Hall.

40 years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Klaus von Klitzing.

80 years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Wolfgang Pauli.

60 years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger and Richard Feynman.

99 years ago, the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded — one year late — to James Franck and Gustav Ludwig Hertz.

In the 100 years since Knut Lundmark established supernovae as a separate class, they have helped to expand our knowledge of the Universe.

A paper in Nature Physics puts forward a statistical mechanics theory to explain the risks of not having enough slack in a time-sensitive system.

A paper in Physical Review Letters sheds new light on a 40-year-old puzzle, and provides new insights into fluid mechanics.

An article in Nature reports an on-chip titanium:sapphire laser.

A paper in Science Advances provides a mechanics-based explanation for why flightless birds run the way they do.

With its capability to observe faint objects from the distant past, JWST is discovering objects that were thought to be rare; for example, compact objects that appear as little red dots are more than they seem.

80 years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Isidor Isaac Rabi.

99 years ago, the 1924 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded — one year late — to Karl Manne Siegbahn.

60 years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Charles Townes, Nicolay Basov and Aleksandr Prokhorov.

20 years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to David Gross, Frank Wilczek and David Politzer.