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

Professor of Physics Xuemei May Cheng has been named a 2025 American Physical Society (APS) Fellow. The APS Fellowship ...

NASA announced that it will be sending instruments built by researchers at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics ...

In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is estimated to account for most of ...

Quantum computing is entering a critical phase as researchers say scaling to millions of qubits is the biggest challenge and ...

Wilson said the class’s development of combining physical skills and critical thinking allows students to develop their ...

A red dwarf 130 light-years away has just rewritten the rules of space weather. For the first time, astronomers have captured definitive evidence of a massive coronal mass ejection from a star other ...

Rocket Lab has signed a contract to launch its new Neutron rocket on a test flight that will advance the U.S. Air Force's point-to-point cargo transportation concept.

Last year, a UCLA-led team accomplished something scientists have been trying to do for 50 years. They made radioactive thorium nuclei absorb and ...

Researchers have created a new crystalline material with unusual magnetic patterns that could be used for breakthroughs in ...

The article underscores the indispensable role of laboratories in science education, drawing from a personal experience that sparked a lifelong academic journey. It laments the neglect of practical ...