Basic Chemistry

See Crystals Form a Mesmerizing World of Microscopic Landscapes

A pandemic micrography project

Joanna Thompson

Animals

How Migrating Birds Use Quantum Effects to Navigate

New research hints at the biophysical underpinnings of their ability to use Earth’s magnetic field lines to find their way to their breeding and wintering grounds

Peter J. Hore and Henrik Mouritsen

Materials Science

Quantum Friction Explains Water’s Freaky Flow

Physicists have finally solved the long-standing mystery of why water moves faster through narrower nanotubes

Karmela Padavic-Callaghan