From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

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

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

In a new publication, Professor José-María Martín-Olalla, from the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at the University ...

Ramón Méndez Galain was a Urguayan theoretical physics professor studying the Big Bang when the president of Uruguay shocked ...

Bibha Chowdhuri was a pioneering Indian physicist in cosmic ray research. She made significant discoveries alongside D.M. Bose. Later, she worked at TIFR and PRL. Her research was crucial for ...

Scientists have found that at the atomic scale, diamonds can briefly trap heat in ...

Neutrinos are low-mass subatomic particles with zero electric charge that interact with matter only via the weak nuclear force and gravity. This makes neutrinos difficult to detect, despite the fact ...

The stealthy startup plans to use a network of satellites to harvest sunlight and send it to Earth using infrared lasers.

This disparity has led to an increasing interest in global health initiatives, with professional organizations looking to provide support to medical physicists in lower income regions. Alongside, ...

With contributions from Brown faculty and students, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by ...

The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through ...