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In 1924, Ernst Ising thought he showed a simple model for ferromagnetism couldn't work. 100 years later, that model, now named for him, is used across all of physics.
An article in Nature Communications uses an Ising-like model to determine the interactions between monomers in a component of the cyanobacterial circadian clock.
50 years ago Roger Penrose described a set of aperiodic tilings, now named after him, that have fascinated artists, mathematicians and physicists ever since.
90 years after Eugene Wigner predicted the formation of an ordered electron state, direct observations of a lattice of electrons in bilayer graphene not only verify the existence of a Wigner crystal but find unexpected physics.
The ATLAS Collaboration at CERN used data from 13 TeV proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider to observe for the first time entanglement between a pair of top quarks.
No sign of sterile neutrinos was found in the latest, and most extensive, analysis done on data taken by the STEREO experiment and yet, the case is not closed.
A paper in Nature Communications reports experiments and simulations of spherical particles that help show how finite numbers of spheres pack in practice.
