physics

STOCKHOLM—Scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for creating ultra-short pulses of light that can give a snapshot of changes within atoms, ...

Australian National University (ANU) physicists have developed new tech that controls the direction that light can and cannot ...

The human body can emit a glow that is invisible to the naked eye. When you touch your ...

Two outstanding experiences created cracks in his armor of atheistic certainty and disrupted what he calls his "web ...

What could help Tour de France riders sleep soundly, heal road rash and tendinitis, and feel vitality and ...

People have long dreamed of traveling to other stars and planets and wandering in the universe with a ...

It was a day of toasts and celebrations for James Peebles, the Canadian scientist who won the Nobel ...

Commentary It’s an unfortunate theme of our times: One can support science or one can believe in a ...

STOCKHOLM/LONDON—Three U.S. scientists won the 2017 Nobel prize for physics on Tuesday for opening up a new era ...

In modern physics, certain quantum processes are deemed fundamentally random. But are they for sure?

A tourist attraction, this giant boulder balances on a small surface area on the slope of a hill. ...

While working on her bachelor’s degree in physics and astronomy, Michelle Kunimoto found four previously unknown planets.

The 260 members of the NOvA Neutrino Experiment recently reported their initial findings in two papers. The team ...

This may be one of the visually least impressive videos that gathered over 7 million views on Youtube. ...

For thousands of years, we have thought we knew what the universe – and everything in it – ...

It seems that some forces, including gravity, may act instantaneously.

Did you know that there was a study conducted to see if someone from the future was here ...

So the periodic table has expanded again with the addition late last year of four new superheavy elements, ...

"Wave-particle duality" is simply the quantum "uncertainty principle" in disguise.

Physicists have set a quantum record by using photons to carry messages from electrons over a distance of ...

Ants are actually liquid-like and solid-like at the same time, according to new research.

I research space weather. That’s how physicists describe how storms on the sun end up affecting us here ...

Encouraging students to repeatedly make decisions about data collected during introductory lab courses improves their critical thinking skills, ...

"Consciousness is part of our universe, so any physical theory which makes no proper place for it falls ...

When a plane that seemed to vanish from sight reappeared 10 minutes later in the same spot, the ...

Dr. Robert Lanza, one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people, believes science must recognize the importance of ...

A mechanical use of a quantum mechanical phenomenon could soon be used for soundproofing.