The Poly sat down with Dr. Jennifer Freedberg ’18 before the winter break to discuss her journey in physics from RPI undergraduate to a condensed matter post-doc at the University of Illinois ...

Quantum physicists are edging closer to a kind of controlled transmutation, not of lead into gold, but of one electronic reality into another. By steering exotic entities called excitons, researchers ...

A massive underground centrifuge chamber in Hangzhou houses what has become the most powerful gravity research machine ever ...

Quantum materials can behave in surprising ways when many tiny spins act together, producing effects that don’t exist in ...

Collective behavior is an unusual phenomenon in condensed-matter physics. When quantum spins interact together as a system, ...

Cheng, R. , Liu, J. , Hao, L. and Wu, D. (2026) On the Application of the Infinitesimal Method to Two Categories of Problems in College Physics. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 14, 378-389. doi: ...

For years, stablecoins have been discussed as a faster alternative to traditional payments. That framing misses the deeper ...

Scientists have uncovered hidden magnetic order inside the pseudogap, bringing us closer to engineering high-temperature superconductors.

Scientists demonstrate Floquet effects using excitons instead of photons, marking a major breakthrough in imbibing materials ...

If schools want to prepare young people for a future shaped by technology, they must act now to ensure that computer science is not a privilege for a few but a foundation for all. The time to begin is ...

Researchers from the University of Waterloo's Faculty of Science and the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) are ...

Scientists have discovered a new quantum state of matter that connects two significant areas of physics, potentially leading ...