A quasar is the extremely bright core of a galaxy that hosts an active supermassive black hole at its center....
A team of physicists from the universities of Amsterdam, Princeton and Oxford have shown that extremely light particles known as...
One of the most difficult problems with quantum computing relates to increasing the size of the quantum computer. Researchers globally...
In collisions between protons at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), pairs of top quarks—the heaviest known elementary particles—are frequently produced...
On October 16, 1843, the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton had an epiphany during a walk alongside Dublin’s Royal Canal....
Neutrons are among the basic building blocks of matter. As long as they are part of a stable atomic nucleus,...
A class of material called perovskites, which have special electronic bonding with many applications, could be useful for quantum sensing....
A new study has uncovered important behavior in the flow of electric current through quantum superconductors, potentially advancing the development...
Imagine walking into a room where several different grandfather clocks hang on the walls, each ticking at a different pace....
Physicists share a common interest in understanding how the physical world works. For example, when a particle physicist breaks apart...
When something draws us in like a magnet, we take a closer look. When magnets draw in physicists, they take...
A compressor hums, an air conditioning system rattles, a railway carriage chassis clatters, sending reverberations through its passengers. Vibrations are...