University of Illinois Physics Professor Paul Kwiat and members of his research group have developed a new tool for precision ...

Ultra-cold superconducting nanowires detect protons traveling at nearly the speed of light, surpassing the limits of ...

Over the decades, physicists have compiled various lists of the most important fundamental constants. Generally, there are a ...

Quantum science has revolutionised modern electronics and global telecommunications, with inventions like the transistor, lasers, rare-earth magnets and light-emitting diodes all made possible by ...

Even in our own solar system, distances seem infinite. Think of driving continuously at highway speed to Pluto. It would take ...

Given this grave existential fact, we are forced to ask a question: Why? Our laws of physics contain several parameters with values that we cannot predict from theory alone. These are known as the ...

Introverts can be powerful decision makers and effective problem solvers, but leaders may never notice this if they don’t ...

I am an astrophysicist, and one of the first things I learned in my studies is how light often behaves in ways that defy our intuitions.

With big outstanding questions and little hints of new physics, physicists are now rethinking some of their most fundamental ...

MIT researchers observe a “second wave” of heat in superfluid helium, confirming that heat propagates like sound.

A quantum computer has used a single atom to model the complex dynamics of organic molecules interacting with light ...