Oct. 31, 2024 — Researchers have come up with a way to turn silicon into a direct bandgap semiconductor, opening the door to the manufacture of ultrathin silicon ... Development of a Simple ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics experiments that changed the world. Physics experiments have changed the ...

Starting today, IceCube is once again calling on volunteers to help "Name that Neutrino," now with many improvements and more videos. Physics Department's Kaczmarczik Lecture Explores New Era of ...

Once the votes were counted in the 2020 presidential election, the result was clear: The pollsters had lost once again.

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics ...

Medical Physics is the application of physics to medicine. It uses physics concepts and procedures in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. Medical Physics fulfils a key role in ...

Seventy years later, this laboratory — known to all as CERN — is credited with major developments in accelerator technology and crucial discoveries in the field of particle physics.

John Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto, two researchers behind the development of machine learning, won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday.

Since the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, there has been ongoing research there into Higgs bosons and a search for traces of physics beyond the existing model of elementary particles.

Nov. 6, 2024 — Supersolids are a new form of quantum matter that has only recently been demonstrated. The state of matter can be produced artificially in ultracold, dipolar quantum gases. A team ...

Electrons typically travel at high speeds, zipping through matter unbound. In the 1930s, physicist Eugene Wigner predicted that electrons could be coaxed into stillness at low densities and cold ...