High pressure has quietly become one of the most powerful tools in condensed matter physics, and a new result in ...

High-pressure homogenization is a powerful technique that can rapidly break apart stubborn cells, for example, by limiting the number of passes needed to disrupt them. The cooling available in a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The bottom of the ocean is cold, dark, and under extreme pressure. It is not a place suited to the physiology of us surface dwellers: At ...