Frank is hard at work on a new book with the working title Futures: From Science to Purpose Through Imagination. Its central concept is that by telling us what is, science empowers us to imagine what could be, and thus to think intelligently about what should be, and to make it happen. This defines the Threefold Way. Futures is expected to appear in 2027. It will be published by Penguin Press in the U.S. and by several other outlets internationally.

Frank Wilczek and collaborators report the first experimental evidence that vacuum fluctuations can enhance superconductivity. The team observed an increase in critical temperature when the layered superconductor NbSe2 was embedded in a split-ring cavity resonator, with the critical current and critical field also rising sharply near the transition. The work, published in Nature, offers a noninvasive way to control superconductivity using engineered vacuum fields rather than heat or applied...

The Wilczek Quantum Center will host a symposium, "Historical and Future Perspectives of Physics and Physicists," on August 17 and 18, 2026. The event will be livestreamed and preserved online. About the symposium The history of physics has repeatedly shown that a deep appreciation of the past and a forward-looking vision are often important at critical moments of major breakthroughs. Today, physics faces profound challenges, among which artificial intelligence brings both transformative...