Physics

If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central…

Gravitational-wave detectors may soon get a major performance boost, thanks to a new instrumentation advance led by physicist…

Lioubtchenko, D., Tretyakov, S. & Dudorov, S. Millimeter-wave waveguides Vol. 114 (Springer Science & Business Media, 2003). Carpintero,…

Quantum mechanics started out by saying access to fundamental reality was impossible. And from the outset, some imagined…

If you ever feel like you are constantly on the move, that’s because you are. And not only…

Quantum-scale thermodynamics offers a tighter definition of entropy – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from…

It turns out that containing the same process that powers the sun can be turbulent work. Even microscale…

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The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope captured this gamma-ray view of our Milky Way galaxy between 2009 and 2013.…

December 3, 2025 New research raises questions about photometric accuracy in industry-standard formats For more than…

A broad experimental programme has shown that the three quantum-mechanical eigenstates of neutrino flavour, νe, νμ and ντ,…

White dwarfs are the dense remnants left behind after a star stops producing energy through nuclear fusion, a…

Most normal matter in the universe isn’t found in planets, stars or galaxies – an astronomer explains where it’s distributed