Physics

What if you could take a proton, keep its basic three-part structure, and then swap in heavier building…

When intense laser flashes strike matter, they can knock electrons out of their positions around atomic nuclei. This…

Astronomers have finally identified the source of unusual X-rays coming from the bright star gamma-Cas. The culprit is…

Despite outward appearances, the internal workings of ice giants like Uranus and Neptune are extremely chaotic. Pressures millions…

Strogatz, S. H. From Kuramoto to Crawford: exploring the onset of synchronization in populations of coupled oscillators. Phys.…

Pests are, well, pesky because they simply won’t go away. And in a terrifying turn of events, scientists…

Landau, L. D. et al. On the theory of phase transitions. Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz 7, 19–32 (1937).…

A dying massive star can regain spin deep inside itself instead of simply slowing down, according to new…

Tiny knotted fibre leaps into the air like a springtail bug – Physics World Skip to main content…

Scientists can now sculpt the quantum states of tiny particles to their liking—an odd yet mind-blowing revolution leading…

The speed of light in a vacuum has been known as both a universal constant and a hard…

Researchers at the University of Oxford have demonstrated a new kind of quantum interaction using a single trapped…

CERN has detected a particle similar to a proton, but about four times heavier, and so rare that detecting it has been much more complicated than it seems