(Nanowerk News) In their new study ("Electron Vortices in Photoionization by Circularly Polarized Attosecond Pulses"), physicists Anthony Starace and Jean Marcel Ngoko Djiokap report an unusual ...

A type of spiraling wave has been busted for disorderly conduct. Spiral waves are waves that ripple outward in a swirl. Now scientists from Germany and the United States have created a new type of ...

Who says physicists don't have heart? In an effort to study the factors that lead to fatal cardiac rhythms, a team of Canadian researchers has shown that the importance of communication applies not ...

Imagine going to the orchestra and instead of a symphony, each musician plays solo, one movement at a time – a violinist during one piece, a cellist during the next, perhaps a clarinetist after that.

Heart cells form a dense, well-coupled excitable medium that displays macroscopic propagating waves of activity with characteristic space scales that are orders of magnitude larger than the cells ...