For over a century, physicists have grappled with one of the most profound questions in science: How do the rules...
Room-temperature superconductors: Fundamental constants suggest they could exist within our universe
In a new development that could help redefine the future of technology, a team of physicists has uncovered a fundamental...
UC Santa Barbara researchers are working to move cold atom quantum experiments and applications from the laboratory tabletop to chip-based...
Experts see peer recognition as important to student success in physics, and a new study gives college-level physics instructors insight...
Two experiment collaborations, the g2p and EG4 collaborations, combined their complementary data on the proton’s inner structure to improve calculations...
Light was long considered to be a wave, exhibiting the phenomenon of interference in which ripples like those in water...
Before there was light, there was cosmic inflation. Before life, planet Earth, the first galaxies—and even before the violent explosion...
From computer chips to image sensors in cameras, today’s technology is overwhelmingly based on a semiconductor called silicon. This technology...
A team led by a member of Tokyo Metropolitan University has made advances in the search for dark matter, observing...
To develop a practical fusion power system, scientists need to fully understand how the plasma fuel interacts with its surroundings....
The sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are...
Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays are the highest-energy particles in the universe, whose energies are more than a million times what...
