From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

Researchers have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model from quantum physics, which goes back to the Nobel Prize laureate Werner Heisenberg. The basis for the successful ...

This experiment looks for axions, a particle which was proposed to solve a major problem in particle physics: why neutrons, although composed of smaller charged particles called quarks ...

Scientists propose a relatively simple yet still complicated tabletop experiment to test the quantumness of gravity, aiming to reconcile general relativity and quantum mechanics.

Most students who earn a PhD in physics build careers outside of research. Meet four physicists who went from particle ...

The work could be a step toward understanding the effects behind the phenomenon of static electricity, in which electric charge accumulates on materials after they are rubbed or touched together.

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in ...

Imagine being able to simultaneously and uniquely track hundreds of molecules or proteins in a cell in three dimensions at millisecond rates. To achieve this goal, the Hewitt Group propose to combine ...

An international collaboration headed by researchers in the Department of Physics has shown that additive manufacturing ...

Scientists experimentally confirm electron vortices in momentum space, a quantum phenomenon that could enable efficient, ...