This week marks the centenary of the French physicist Louis de Broglie's doctoral thesis, which later earned him a Nobel ...

Over the past several decades, researchers have been getting better and better at manipulating tiny particles with acoustic ...

Using a groundbreaking new technique, researchers have unveiled the first detailed image of a photon — a single particle of ...

Distortions in pulsar signals reveal flaws in galactic models, pointing to new opportunities for understanding the universe ...

Many physical phenomena – including heat transfer, fluid flow and electromagnetic wave propagation, to name just three ... so we believe this should be possible,” Pacheco-Peña tells Physics World.

A fibrous composite foam employs the triboelectric effect and in situ electrical energy dissipation to absorb low-frequency ...

Energy-saving techniques like this within the medical field have important implications. For one, they can help save money.

Some of the energy is lost to space while some is returned to Earth. NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory reported in January ...

The research sheds new light on fundamental phenomena that can be harnessed to advance applications in quantum science, ...

More generally, studying particles from outer space often demands audacious proposals, especially ones that make use of the ...

Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, is famously incomplete. As proven by physics Nobel laureate Roger ...

Since the first modern SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) studies tried to detect alien transmissions in the ...