Research Highlights5 November 2026|Advanced Imaging HighlightsQuantum gas microscope: Interactions in a three-component Hubbard system can be precisely controlledPhoto: UHH/SchaussFor the first time, an international team of researchers from Germany, Thailand, India, China and United States has created a three-component Hubbard...16 October 2026|Advanced Imaging HighlightsWorld-record intensity in short, energetic X-ray pulsesPhoto: European XFEL/Tobias WüstefeldResearchers used the European XFEL to create X-ray flashes that were not only extremely short, but also reached record intensity for this type of...7 October 2026|Advanced Imaging HighlightsA systematic search for new twisted quantum materialsPhoto: Hanqi Pi, DIPC.Two back-to-back papers just published in Science map nearly 9,000 atomically thin structures and identify more than 1,600 candidates for new quantum...24 September 2026|Advanced Imaging HighlightsPicosecond pulses push superconductors beyond their critical-current limitPhoto: Jörg Harms, Eryin Wang (MPSD)Superconductors can carry electrical current without resistance, but only up to a maximum value known as the critical current. The critical current is...30 July 2026|Advanced Imaging HighlightsMechanical strain creates chiralityPhoto: Jörg Harms, Zhiyang Zeng (MPSD).Mechanical strain is one of the most common tools used to tailor the properties of materials. In piezoelectric materials, stretching or compressing a...29 July 2026|Advanced Imaging HighlightsUltrafast X-ray flashes heal the damage they causePhoto: Stacy HuangThe interaction between X-rays and matter can be actively controlled: an international research team led by the University of Hamburg and SLAC...15 July 2026|Advanced Imaging HighlightsResearchers watch chemistry unfold atom by atomPhoto: European XFEL/Enrique SahagunResearchers have captured how a molecule redistributes energy after absorbing light, differentiating the roles of individual atoms in the process...14 July 2026|Advanced Imaging HighlightsProgrammable Quantum WhirlpoolsPhoto: TII Abu Dhabi, editedWatch water spiral down a bathroom drain and you are looking at one of the most stubborn puzzles in physics. Vortices, the swirling structures behind...1 July 2026|Advanced Imaging HighlightsUniversal quantum melting of quasiperiodic dynamicsPhoto: C. Nowoczyn, K.SeiboldBetween simple periodic motion and chaos, nonlinear systems can display complex rhythms that never exactly repeat. In a new theoretical study...25 June 2026|Advanced Imaging HighlightsViruses under stress: how viral shells change shape as they dry outPhoto: MPSDWhen viruses travel through the air in tiny droplets, they can quickly start to dry out. Yet many viruses remain infectious after...Show all news
