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Tag: Physics

Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate...

Antonios Mamalakis, University of Virginia Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in...

Tahoe avalanche: What causes snow slopes to collapse? A physicist and...

Nathalie Vriend, University of Colorado Boulder A deadly avalanche buried a group of backcountry skiers and their guides near...

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....

EXPLORING NATURE

Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...

Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison