For the first time, scientists have ‘photographed’ a rare plasma instability, where high-energy electron beams form into spaghetti-like filaments. A...
With more than 500 bridges crisscrossing the city of Philadelphia, they are an integral part of daily life. In a...
With more than 500 bridges crisscrossing the city of Philadelphia, they are an integral part of daily life. In a...
In the quest for ultra-secure, long-range quantum communication, two major challenges stand in the way: the unpredictable nature of atmospheric...
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...
