For more than a century, condensed matter physics has grappled with one of its greatest unsolved challenges: how to build superconductors that operate at room temperature and transmit electricity with ...

Six thousand eight hundred feet below the floor of an active nickel mine in northern Ontario, something has gone extremely cold. Not cold in the way of a walk-in freezer, or a liquid nitrogen tank, or ...

"Project Hail Mary," the Ryan Gosling-led adaptation of the best-selling sci-fi novel from Andy Weir, is being praised for putting the science in science fiction. Although aliens, sun-draining ...

In the history books, he’ll forever be Sir Anthony Leggett, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, fellow of the Royal Society back home in the U.K. and namesake ...

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New faculty member Anton Artemyev is bringing his award-winning research in space physics to The University of Texas at Arlington, strengthening the University’s growing presence in space science and ...

Physics departments chairs around the country have expressed feelings of demoralization, decreased productivity, and a reduced capacity for graduate students as a result of policy changes. These ...

While these behavior changes have clear long-term benefits, I’d like to offer up a more radical change, one whose positive effects are immediate and undeniable: For just one day, give up all clocks. I ...

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking work on quantum key cryptography.

UNIGE Professor Michele Maggiore has been appointed spokesperson for the future European gravitational-wave observatory. Michele Maggiore will represent the entire collaboration, after having ...

Superconductivity is the ability to transmit energy without any resistance when an object is cooled to a certain temperature.

Researchers join Wellcome Leap’s international effort to better understand early biological influences on neurodevelopment.