The merry-go-round, with its brightly painted horses and twinkling white lights, had become a symbol of a promised egalitarian leisure—a promise that was irrevocably shattered on August 12, 1834.

A small international team of nanotechnologists, engineers and physicists has developed a way to force laser light into becoming a supersolid. Their paper is published in the journal Nature.

Scientists have turned light into a supersolid for the first time in a groundbreaking new study. This milestone is a significant leap forward in condensed matter physics. Dimitrios Trypogeorgos from ...