Physics

The unexpected coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism observed in two experiments this year has finally been explained by…

As physicist Cumrun Vafa once told me, puzzles in science often come in pairs, each serving as the…

At 15 years old, Belgian researcher Laurent Simons earned a PhD in quantum physics from the University of…

Black holes are among the strangest objects in the universe. Even though we have learned a great deal…

Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China science stories of the year. If you would like to…

Astronomers have long struggled to capture the true nature of stellar nova explosions. However, thanks to cutting-edge techniques,…

By firing tiny projectiles of iron-carbon alloy from a high-speed cannon, scientists have finally demonstrated that a weird…

Physicists have experimentally reversed electromagnetic waves in time, confirming a theoretical prediction that has stood for decades. The…

Chinese researchers have taken a major step in the global race to build practical quantum computers, becoming the…

A team of Australian and international scientists has, for the first time, created a full picture of how…

An international research team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures…

A recent study published in Nuclear Physics B examines how hidden dimensions might influence the physical reality that…

“This Will Be a New Chapter in Quantum Physics”: Odd Quasiparticles May Explain a Pair of Quantum Experiments That Baffled Scientists