Avalanche Energy lands $29M in funding as plasma physics breakthroughs push compact fusion tech forward and spark momentum in clean energy.

The study shows that in quantum devices, reading a clock consumes far more energy than running it. This insight will help ...

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

"There are more questions than answers at this point." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Dark energy could have an accomplice that ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Particle and high energy physics seeks to understand the fundamental constituents of matter and the interactions that govern them across the smallest distance scales and highest energies. The Standard ...

The six-year Dark Energy Survey has released its full results, showing that two leading models of cosmology are equally valid — but both fail to explain one key observation.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an ...

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in California. He was 88. Winston was a University of Chicago professor in the ...

In January I wrote a piece titled “5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know.” Lots of you weighed in with your own nominations, and there were plenty of good suggestions. So I’ve decided to do a ...