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Tag: Physics

New materials, old physics – the science behind how your winter...

Longji Cui, University of Colorado Boulder and Wan Xiong, University of Colorado Boulder As the weather grows cold this...

Electric fields steered nanoparticles through a liquid-filled maze – this new...

Daniel K. Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder and Ankur Gupta, University of Colorado Boulder In the home, the lab...
The Stanford linear accelerator creates super short X-ray pulses. Steve Jurvetson/Flickr, CC BY

Our team of physicists inadvertently generated the shortest X-ray pulses ever observed

Uwe Bergmann, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Thomas Linker, Stanford University X-ray beams aren’t used just by doctors to see...

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...
The quantum behavior of superconducting circuits like the small white square above was a major discovery. K. Cicak and R. Simmonds/NIST

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...

EXPLORING NATURE

LA fires showed how much neighborliness matters for wildfire safety –...

Elizabeth A. Logan, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and William Deverell, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences