How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

Physicists finally identified why some quantum materials seemingly lose their electrical conductivity for no reason.

If these knots had a slight bias toward matter over antimatter, their unraveling could help explain the matter-antimatter ...

As a kid, did you ever play that game Guess Who? If you haven't, it's actually kinda fun. You have two players, each with a board in front of them. On the board are a bunch of flip cards with ...

MIT researchers have devised a new molecular technique that lets electrons probe inside atomic nuclei, replacing massive particle accelerators with a tabletop setup. By studying radium monofluoride, ...

Such projects are often fun for students and teachers. Teachers are often intrigued and amazed by students’ ideas and ...

Trapped and squeezed: A single nanoparticle made of glass (a white point near the centre of the photo) is confined in an optical potential created with a focused laser beam. By detecting the light ...

Is the universe thinking and learning on some level? This is a thorny subject, but one that some researchers are willing to consider. According to research that was published in the pre-print server ...

Update: The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation ...

Researchers at CERN may be on the verge of explaining the universe’s missing gamma rays and hidden magnetic fields.