Physicists have watched a quantum fluid do something once thought almost impossible: stop moving. In experiments with ...

Claudio Chamon will join the Purdue University College of Science beginning fall 2025. Photo by Frank Curran. Quantum science is the next frontier in scientific achievement and Purdue University is ...

Science funding cuts in the UK are expected to be a "devastasting blow" for physics research, affecting international ...

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

On October 8, 2024, the field of physics was plunged into controversy. That day, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for discoveries not involving black holes, cosmology, or strange new subatomic ...

An obscure theory of elementary particles proved to be key to China’s re-emergence as a scientific nation after the Cultural Revolution had stalled its development. Robert P Crease finds out more from ...

Growing up near the World Bank’s agricultural development project in Anyigba (present day Kogi State, Nigeria), Mark Akubo and his friends would visit the aerodrome to watch light planes take off and ...

College professors these days face an ever-higher bar to grab the attention of their students, forced to compete with the stimuli of smartphones and laptops in large lecture halls. But when your ...

Science journalism is reporting on the symptoms of a disease whose origins lie in an economic model that’s at odds with the ...

When we imagine contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, we tend to picture messages: radio signals, mathematical codes, or perhaps a universal language waiting to be discovered. But what if alien ...

Have you ever wondered about the world around you? Like, why the sky is blue, or why people act the way they do? There are two big ways we try to understand these things: through physical science and ...