By exploring positive geometry, mathematicians are revealing hidden shapes that may unify particle physics and cosmology, ...

The force between electrical charges is kind of a big deal—without it, the universe would be a primordial soup, and you would ...

Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, ...

New study proposes using atomic clocks to probe the intersection of quantum mechanics and general relativity in spacetime.

David Norman reviews The Physics of Birds and Birding: the Sounds, Colors and Movements of Birds, and Our Tools for Watching Them by Michael Hurben ...

For the first time, researchers have measured atomic temperatures in extreme matter and found gold surviving at 19,000 ...

If there is a beginning time point for the Age of Scientific Reversal, it may be 1887—the year when Albert A. Michelson and ...

A marathon runner himself, Cosimo Bambi likens the quest for interstellar travel to a long-distance race, saying his proposal ...

How can the tiniest particles and the vast structure of the universe be explained using the same kind of mathematics? This ...

Researchers from UNamur and Stanford have developed a compact, energy-efficient photonic device that steers light using ...

Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) refers to quantum devices that contain tens to a few hundred qubits, but still suffer from significant noise and errors.

When light hits solar cells, so-called electron-hole pairs are created: the electrons are excited and can move almost freely ...