Tag: Physics
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...
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...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
When fake data is a good thing – how synthetic data...
Ambuj Tewari, University of Michigan
You’ve just finished a strenuous hike to the top of a mountain. You’re exhausted...
