Scientists have taken a major step toward solving a long-standing mystery in particle physics, by finding no sign of the ...

A subtle timing flash may expose the Unruh effect. The approach ties ordinary lab tools to deep quantum physics. Researchers ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features the artist Geraldine Cox, who draws on her background in physics to create pieces inspired by the patterns of nature. Cox talks about her ...

The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully completed the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) and released its first physics results.

Astronomers have flagged a distant stellar object so extreme that, on paper, it should not exist. Its mass, brightness and ...

Curiosity, collaboration and a passion for discovering how the universe works have propelled this rising astrophysicist onto ...

Astrophysicists have seen evidence for tiny variations in the background of neutrinos left over from the Big Bang. Roberto Trotta of Oxford University and Alessandro Melchiorri at the University of ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006 jointly to John C. Mather of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and George F. Smoot of the University of ...

An analysis of Web of Science data spanning more than 100 years reveals the rapid growth and increasing multidisciplinarity of physics — as well its internal map of subdisciplines. In this era of ...