Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

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

The white streaks that crisscross the sky have become a Rorschach test for a polarized era. To some, they are proof of a ...

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

While popular AI models such as ChatGPT are trained on language or photographs, new models created by researchers from the ...

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

Metal clusters made of thousands of atoms showed quantum interference, offering new insight into how large objects follow quantum rules.

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

Idzerda is now director of the MonArk Quantum Foundry, a partnership between MSU and the University of Arkansas whose mission is to accelerate research for quantum technologies in the U.S.

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 ...

Physics is the study of the underlying laws and mechanisms explaining how the universe works. Most of what we do in daily life is based on a principle or law of physics—dealing with forces, motion, ...