Maria Goeppert Mayer is remembered as one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. She was born in Germany ...

In a research project that has real implications for their regular laboratory work, a pair of physicists at Brown University ...

An international team of scientists from IBM, The University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL and the University of Regensburg have created and characterized a molecule unlike any ...

Estimating things that exist is generally easy, but when it comes to estimating things that do not exist, it’s more difficult. This is something physicists from Poland and the UK are well aware of. To ...

Experts are calling for the cryptographic systems on which the entire network depends to be made ready now for the imminent ...

Several massive multimillion dollar experiments should soon reveal more about the nature of these ghostly particles ...

Caltech scientists have developed a method that detects tiny, imperceptible movements at the surface of objects to reveal details about what lies beneath. By analyzing the physics of waves traveling ...

Gabriele Albertini received funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and the University of Nottingham. The unofficial ...

The physics behind shoe squeaks is surprisingly complex. Phil Roeder via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0. As illustrated by the High School Musical song “Get’cha Head in the ...

Physicist Paul Davies looks back at the past century of quantum mechanics—the most disruptive theory in the history of modern science.

For years, the Prairie Pothole Region has bothered me in a very specific way. On a map, it looks like a normal landscape: ...