Physics

Stephen Hawking died in March 2018. In the eight years since, the world has done something genuinely strange.…

Scientists have developed a surprising new way to power materials that normally cannot conduct electricity, opening the door…

The explosive growth of electric vehicles has intensified the search for ways to make electric motors more energy…

Correlated and entangled photon pairs are essential tools in quantum optics. Scientists usually create these photon pairs through…

Physicists find possible errors in 100-year-old model of the universe Live ScienceHistory of universe could be rewritten as boffins…

Don Gurnett, the principal investigator for the Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, spent…

Everything you have ever touched, seen, or felt comes down to four forces. The four forces hold atoms…

If a certain tiny bubble suddenly appeared somewhere in the cosmos, physicists say, it could expand and erase…

This a process similar to auto-tune used in music production – where software can correct a singer’s pitch…

Researchers have created a new fusion plasma regime that simultaneously reduces extreme divertor heat loads and suppresses damaging…

A flashlight beam cuts straight across a dark room. Light moving through a window doesn’t twist or curve…

We may have accidentally detected dark matter back in 2019. This potentially history-making discovery could be lurking in…

Stephen Hawking spent the final years of his life convinced humanity had to become a multi-planet species before this century was out — and almost every risk he warned about has accelerated since he died