Graphene is stronger than steel and a better conductor that copper, making the two-dimensional material of particular ...

An international research collaboration has utilized advanced computer simulations to investigate how faint radio signals from the early universe can reveal the fundamental properties of dark matter.

DeepSeek-R1 includes an in-depth training phase under human supervision to optimize the reasoning process. The Liang Wenfeng team reported that the model used reinforcement learning instead of human ...

For the first time, scientists have observed electrons in graphene behaving like a nearly perfect quantum fluid, challenging a long-standing puzzle in physics. By creating ultra-clean samples, the ...

This Perspective describes how statistical physics helps understand some of the key aspects of cities: their spatial structure and social organization, the distribution of their population, urban ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Imagine tugging on a Chinese finger trap. The harder you pull, the tighter it grips. This counterintuitive behavior also ...

A newly discovered set of mathematical equations describes how to turn any sequence of random events into a clock, scientists ...