The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...

In Millikan's experiment, an oil drop became a microscopic messenger, revealing the quantized nature of electric charge, a cornerstone of modern physics. This ingenious experiment, conducted by Robert ...

Researchers have devised a new way to define thermodynamic concepts in microscopic quantum systems, where conventional distinctions between heat and work begin to blur. Researchers at the University o ...

The geometry of space, the setting in which physical laws operate, may hold clues to some of the biggest unanswered questions in fundamental physics. The underlying structure of spacetime itself could ...

The evidence is not visual, as we might expect when we picture lightning. Instead, it is audio recordings from the SuperCam ...

The Wave Engineering for eXtreme and Intelligent maTErials (We-Xite) lab, led by engineering assistant professor Osama R.

We’re used to seeing ever greater particle accelerators — colossal machines sprawling across landscapes, built to reveal the ...

In the dense environment of the early universe, dark matter particles would collide with, and annihilate, each other, releasing energy in the process. This energy could heat the hydrogen and helium ...

Challenging the Assumptions Physicists have long believed that black holes explode at the end of their lives, and that such ...

Scientists mix plasmas of antiprotons and positrons in a magnetic bottle called a Penning-Malmberg trap. When these particles ...

A blazar is an extraordinarily bright object with a supermassive black hole at its core. Some of the matter falling into the ...

“We were in a bad state financially,” says Sir Brian May, still as recognisable as ever thanks to that now white thatch of ...