Tag: Physics
From artificial atoms to quantum information machines: Inside the 2025 Nobel...
Zhixin Wang, University of California, Santa Barbara
The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics honors three quantum physicists – John...
Nobel Prize in physics awarded for ultracold electronics research that launched...
Eli Levenson-Falk, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Quantum mechanics describes the weird behavior of microscopic particles....
The first stars may not have been as uniformly massive as...
Luke Keller, Ithaca College
For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like....
H-bomb creator Richard Garwin was a giant in science, technology and policy
Matthew Bunn, Harvard Kennedy School
Richard Garwin, who died on May 13, 2025, at the age of 97, was...
Colliding plasma ejections from the Sun generate huge geomagnetic storms −...
Shirsh Lata Soni, University of Michigan
The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain...
Evolving intelligent life took billions of years − but it may...
Daniel Brady Mills, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; Jason Wright, Penn State, and Jennifer L. Macalady, Penn State
A...
How do airplanes fly? An aerospace engineer explains the physics of flight
Craig Merrett, Clarkson University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If...
How can I get ice off my car? An engineer who...
Suresh Dhaniyala, Clarkson University
If you live somewhere that gets cold in the winter, you’ve probably seen cars parked...
EXPLORING NATURE
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...
Celeste Kidd, University of California, Berkeley
I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s...
