Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw and the University of British Columbia have described how ...

Angular momentum is a fundamental quantity in physics that describes the rotational motion of objects. In quantum physics, it ...

A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of ...

The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

Physicists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have a novel plan to uncover an unknown fifth force of nature long theorized to exist ...

A study from SMU and three other universities, available on the arXiv preprint server, delved into the possibility of updating fundamental physics concepts. SMU played a significant part in the ...

A strange pattern running through the equations of physics may reveal something fundamental about the universe or could be a sign that human brains are biased to ignore more complex explanations ...

It appears that we live on the knife-edge, where only the narrowest combination of values for the fundamental constants allow life, and especially conscious life, to arise.

For the first lecture in the Fall Physics Colloquium Series, Chuankun Zhang, a graduate student from the University of Colorado Boulder's physics department and a researcher at JILA, delivered an ...

His latest accolade, announced last April, is the most lucrative in all of science: a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, worth $3 million, in recognition of ’t Hooft’s myriad ...

The device could allow for new tests of fundamental physics Physicists used a laser (shown) to probe a jump between two energy levels in thorium-229, which could serve as a nuclear clock. Chuankun ...