A new study offers a user-friendly template for simulating quantum systems on consumer laptops, saving supercomputers for ...

Many of the world's most important systems, such as the atmosphere, turbulent fluids, and even the motion of planets, behave ...

The popular myth asserting that a penny dropped from a skyscraper could kill a person is consistently debunked by the laws of ...

Physicists propose that tangled cosmic “knots” formed after the Big Bang may explain why our universe is made of matter, not ...

To be fair, humans aren't shaped like sheep or grains. And unlike in the study with the board, Zuriguel believes that all ...

The continued growth of AI is bumping up against twin problems of electrical supply and enterprise demand. Collaboration on ...

Differential equations are fundamental tools in physics: they are used to describe phenomena ranging from fluid dynamics to general relativity. But when these equations become stiff (i.e. they involve ...

Students and faculty of UC Santa Barbara’s physics department gathered in Corwin Pavilion for the department’s annual Nobel Prize-focused colloquium on Oct. 14. This year’s event was particularly spec ...

A water-powered nanogenerator uses droplet formation to convert flowing water into electricity, providing a clean, ...

Based on her work, scientists can now monitor electron dynamics happening in a few attoseconds – an attosecond is to a second as a second is to about 31.71 billion years. L’Huillier, a French ...