Physics

From Newton’s mechanical calculations to Einstein’s general and special relativity to the baffling indeterminacy of quantum mechanics, the…

A strange metal can fit in your hand, yet still behave in ways that seem to belong to…

For decades, physicists assumed the universe’s most powerful particles stopped at iron. Anything heavier would shatter crossing the…

Researchers in Germany have brought Europe’s first and only superconducting TES-array X-ray spectrometer online at the BESSY II…

Sekhar, M. C. et al. A review on piezoelectric materials and their applications. Cryst. Res. Technol. 58, 2200130…

The LHCb Collaboration has found a new particle consisting of one strange quark and two charm quarks. With…

An expanding mini-universe could counterbalance the collapsing matter of a star, thereby creating a stable gravastar. Credit: Daniel…

Flocks of birds, bacteria and tissue cells: in some collective systems, the individual elements respond to only part…

By harnessing the unique properties of quantum mechanics, scientists and engineers worldwide seek to enable systems with extraordinary…

Shanahan, M., McDonell, K. & Reynolds, L. Role play with large language models. Nature 623, 493–498 (2023). Article …

Cooling sequence The cold-atom apparatus used in this experiment has previously been described in refs. 42,56. To prepare…

In 1927, a physics professor in Brisbane named Thomas Parnell heated a lump of pitch, a black tar…

The Map of Physics: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Physics Fit Together