Physics

A vacuum vessel in Oxfordshire shaped less like a doughnut than a cored apple. Inside it the machine…

If some aspects of cosmic topology turn out to be true, the idea that starships might voyage the…

Does gravity affect every type of particle in exactly the same way? Researchers at ETH Zurich and the…

Does gravity affect every type of particle in exactly the same way? Researchers at ETH Zurich and the…

Insider Brief Stanford researchers directly observed individual phonons, or quantum units of sound, making discrete energy jumps in…

Elmegreen, B. G. & Scalo, J. Interstellar turbulence I: observations and processes. Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 42, 211–273…

Under the right conditions, theoretical calculations showed a flip could prevent sudden death — an outcome researchers call…

Physicists from the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have found evidence of the Higgs boson…

Amy Lytle and Etienne Gagnon. (Photo by Deb Grove, Franklin & Marshall College.) Jessica Bickel and Thijs Heus.…

New hybrid quantum research breakthrough cuts through supercomputing bottlenecks to save processing time for complex car and jet…

Potential dark matter detection sparks hope in search for elusive substance Dark matter is invisible and makes up…

Cornell physicists have discovered that minimizing disorder, not varying electron count, is the key factor for controlling the…

A 1,100 plasma campaign on a spherical tokamak in Oxfordshire hit the machine’s highest pressure without a single disruption, where the real result was 4 separate ways to tame the plasma edge