Using the second-nearest neighboring atoms to predict metallic glass stability can help researchers more accurately model the ...

Thinking at cosmic and subatomic scales requires plenty of math—or some visual metaphors.

For many undergraduate students, exploring the complexities of physics for the first time, from wading through advanced ...

A new study just added an interesting twist to the complicated history of the physics theory.

Physicists may have uncovered a surprising new clue that string theory—the idea that the universe is built from unimaginably tiny vibrating strings—could be more than just a mathematical fantasy.

A new experiment confirms that photons passing through a cloud of atoms can spend a negative amount of time there, and the ...

Scientists have detected changes in cosmic rays that could reveal the true origin of these extreme particles in the universe.

Scientists have shown that sunlight alone can generate quantum-correlated photons capable of producing “ghost images,” a feat ...

By firing a proton beam at carbon-12, researchers created an eta prime meson that briefly bound to a carbon-11 nucleus, ...

A plasma experiment succeeded in twisting light-like waves, and revealed a new, previously unknown rule of extreme physics.

Helium nuclei, carbon nuclei, oxygen nuclei: three very different particles, all screaming through the Milky Way at nearly ...