Phase-transition language can illuminate not only Joseph’s story but also the history of humanity. To be clear, this is a metaphor, not a reduction. Human history is not governed by thermodynamic laws ...

Over the past two decades, the concept of holographic superconductivity has emerged as a compelling framework for probing the properties of strongly coupled superconducting systems. By utilising the ...

Believe it or not, steel has something in common with bacterial appendages: they can both undergo a special type of physical transformation that remains puzzling. Now, researchers from Japan and China ...

The early universe may chirp about unknown physics. A research team has demonstrated how an early universe phase transition will lead to gravitational wave signals potentially visible in the upcoming ...