Physics attempts to both answer philosophical questions about the nature of the universe and provide solutions to technological problems. Finding ground states of quantum many-body systems is ...

The rich history of research involving photons is celebrated in a supplement to this month's Nature Physics ... by others on such topics as spin, light microscopy, DNA technologies and cancer.

A record-setting test of quantum communication used a microsatellite to connect ground stations in China and South Africa, ...

Supersolids are strange materials that behave like both a solid and a fluid due to quantum effects – and now researchers have ...

Scientists have turned light into a "supersolid" for the first time, marking a groundbreaking achievement in physics that ...

Researchers say what was once just a concept is now a reality, thanks to efforts led by Dr Marcello Ferrera and his team of ...

Physicists from Imperial College London have achieved a groundbreaking milestone in quantum physics by reimagining the classic double-slit experiment—this time in the dimension of time.

Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they follow relatively simple mathematical rules also found in branching patterns in nature.

Light is more than a little bit inscrutable. Modern physics has sliced the stuff of nature into ever smaller and more exotic constituents, but light won't reduce. Light is light—pure ...

This discovery, which builds on decades of research, has implications for quantum physics ... published in Nature (Nature) demonstrated how researchers could stop light entirely for a brief ...

The curriculum offered by the Department of Physics provides knowledge of the physical concepts that are basic to the laws of nature, and the ability to use these fundamental concepts to answer ...

Physicists explore science and how things work. Our students learn the physical concepts of the laws of nature and how these concepts answer questions and solve real problems. Earning a bachelor’s ...