Physicists have watched a quantum fluid do something once thought almost impossible: stop moving. In experiments with ...

A new paper by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) staff details how using popular culture could effectively teach science, ...

Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that challenges our understanding of how the universe evolved.

MACE is a next-generation experiment designed to catch muonium transforming into its antimatter twin, a process that would ...

When a guitar string is plucked or a playground swing is set in motion, the movement gradually fades away. Physicists call these “damped harmonic oscillators,” and Newton’s laws do a fine job of ...

While popular AI models such as ChatGPT are trained on language or photographs, new models created by researchers from the ...

Randles began her career as a physicist and she explains why she was drawn to the multidisciplinary research that she does today. Randles talks about her enduring love of computer coding and also ...

The first warp drive design from the early 90s required massive amounts of negative energy, but three decades of honing the math later, scientists have lowered that threshold considerably. Now, a new ...

In deserts and beaches around the world, certain sands produce deep roaring, humming, or squeaking sounds that can be heard for miles. Ancient travelers believed spirits lived beneath the dunes, but ...

An obscure theory of elementary particles proved to be key to China’s re-emergence as a scientific nation after the Cultural Revolution had stalled its development. Robert P Crease finds out more from ...

The American Institute of Physics has awarded its 2002 Andrew Gemant Award for communicating physics to Michael Riordan, adjunct professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.