A team from the Max Born Institute (MBI) in Berlin and DESY in Hamburg has built the world’s first plasma lens capable of focusing attosecond pulses, a feat that could transform ultrafast physics. The ...

Each cell of Jesus’ body embodies his love for his creation—not only humans but also the animals, plants, mountains, and ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

Physicists have uncovered how direct atom-atom interactions can amplify superradiance, the collective burst of light from ...

No one can control the weather, but certain clouds can be deliberately triggered to release rain or snow. The process, known ...

From the burning of wood to the action of medicines, the properties and behavior of matter are governed by the way chemical ...

A new study led by space chemist Jordy Bouwman may reveal a missing link in how certain organic molecules form in outer space. They include buckminsterfullerine, sometimes known as the "buckyball," a ...

The team used intense X-rays to confirm a key theoretical concept that explains a material's conductivity crash.

Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.

Researchers uncovered a crucial mechanism that reveals how electrons and atoms interact to create a new quasiparticle and ...

Physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made a groundbreaking discovery, developing a tabletop ...

Researchers have made germanium superconducting for the first time, a feat that could transform computing and quantum ...