Water is everywhere, from the snowpack in the mountains to the tap in our kitchens. But while we often think about rainfall ...

Using robotic fins, researchers at the University of California, Riverside have learned how stingrays are able to swim with ...

Electrons are usually described as particles, but in a rare quantum material, that picture completely breaks down ...

A 'boom' of light that appears when a particle exceeds the speed of light set by a medium could, in other contexts, signal a kind of quantum instability that could trigger what's known as vacuum decay ...

A long-standing law of thermodynamics turns out to have a loophole at the smallest scales. Researchers have shown that quantum engines made of correlated particles can exceed the traditional ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

All three winners of today’s 2025 Nobel Prize in physics are faculty at the University of California. The Nobel Prize committee honored John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the ...

Flux physics refers to continuous change in physical quantities, including energy transfer and dynamic equilibria. Flux is central to many areas of formal and Big-P physics, though intuitive ...

A $200,000 unrestricted physics endowment to the Louisiana Tech University College of Engineering and Science honors the life ...

An obscure theory of elementary particles proved to be key to China’s re-emergence as a scientific nation after the Cultural ...

We hope you enjoyed this look back at the last 100 years of television in science. From the early days of physicists ...