The most popular Physics Today articles of 2018

The year is nearly over, and I’m exhausted. At times during the whirlwind that was 2018, I felt determined to dig into the news and make sense …

As 2018 draws to a close, we look back at our favorite stories of the year, from groundbreaking research to a poem inspired by quantum physics …

By chance, my article came out on the same day as a piece in the New … But cryptographic systems that rely on quantum physics to keep data …

While this four-part decomposition has been known for more than 20 years [2], physicists‘ understanding of it has been only qualitative.

Theoretical physicist was among the first to predict that the phenomenon of topology could lead to exotic states of matter.

But lately he has been dying a second death, if one believes a new spate of articlesand papers bemoaning the state of contemporary physics.

… in understanding magnetic energy conversion to energetic particles in jets,” says plasma physicist James Drake of the University of Maryland, …

While Leonardo may not be the only journal to offer this special blend of articles, it is one of few, said Philip Moriarty, a physicist at the …

This research is published in Physical Review X. –Michael Schirber. Michael Schirber is a Corresponding Editor for Physics based in Lyon, …

Later, physicists learned that neutrinos oscillate, meaning that the three known neutrino “flavors” (electron, muon, and tau) periodically convert …