Scientists have taken a major step toward solving a long-standing mystery in particle physics, by finding no sign of the ...

By establishing a larger principle for how things shatter, certain energy-intensive tasks could gain an advantage.

The knots in your shoelaces are familiar, but can you imagine knots made from light, water, or from the structured fluids ...

Researchers from TUM, working at CERN, have made a groundbreaking discovery that reveals how deuterons are formed. Another long-standing question in particle physics has been answered. Scientists ...

A new article examines the history of computing to help outline the direction of quantum research. It reports that quantum ...

Scientists announced on Wednesday that they have found no evidence for the hypothetical “sterile neutrino,” an extra version ...

A new breakthrough study fromRutgers University is offering insights into one of the universe’s most extraordinary phenomena—an enigmatic cosmic explosion that has left scientists in awe. This event, ...

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

In the 1960s, a group of physicists and historians began a massive project meant to catalogue and record the history of quantum physics. It was called Sources for History of Quantum Physics (SHQP). As ...

The American Institute of Physics has awarded its 2002 Andrew Gemant Award for communicating physics to Michael Riordan, adjunct professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.