By establishing a larger principle for how things shatter, certain energy-intensive tasks could gain an advantage.

Researchers from TUM, working at CERN, have made a groundbreaking discovery that reveals how deuterons are formed. Another long-standing question in particle physics has been answered. Scientists ...

Scientists have taken a major step toward solving a long-standing mystery in particle physics, by finding no sign of the ...

Scientists finally caught solar neutrinos triggering a rare atomic transformation once thought nearly impossible to observe.

When a guitar string is plucked or a playground swing is set in motion, the movement gradually fades away. Physicists call these “damped harmonic oscillators,” and Newton’s laws do a fine job of ...

Scientists announced on Wednesday that they have found no evidence for the hypothetical “sterile neutrino,” an extra version ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

Scientists recently analyzed Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night to see how well its famous swirls matched up with known atmospheric physics. After analysis, they found that not only did the shapes match ...

In the 1960s, a group of physicists and historians began a massive project meant to catalogue and record the history of quantum physics. It was called Sources for History of Quantum Physics (SHQP). As ...

The American Institute of Physics has awarded its 2002 Andrew Gemant Award for communicating physics to Michael Riordan, adjunct professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.