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

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

No one can control the weather, but certain clouds can be deliberately triggered to release rain or snow. The process, known as cloud seeding, typically involves dispersing small silver iodide ...

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

Far from Earth, in the vast expanses of space between stars, exists a treasure trove of carbon. There, in what scientists ...

Due to government shutdown restrictions currently in place in the US, the researchers who headed up this study have not been able to comment on their work Laser plasma acceleration (LPA) may be used ...

Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it.

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.

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

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 ...