How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

Physicists finally identified why some quantum materials seemingly lose their electrical conductivity for no reason.

If these knots had a slight bias toward matter over antimatter, their unraveling could help explain the matter-antimatter ...

As a kid, did you ever play that game Guess Who? If you haven't, it's actually kinda fun. You have two players, each with a board in front of them. On the board are a bunch of flip cards with ...

MIT researchers have devised a new molecular technique that lets electrons probe inside atomic nuclei, replacing massive particle accelerators with a tabletop setup. By studying radium monofluoride, ...

The era has begun where AI moves beyond merely "plausibly drawing" to understanding even why clothes flutter and wrinkles ...

Trapped and squeezed: A single nanoparticle made of glass (a white point near the centre of the photo) is confined in an optical potential created with a focused laser beam. By detecting the light ...

When machine learning is used to suggest new potential scientific insights or directions, algorithms sometimes offer solutions that are not physically sound. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

Researchers at CERN may be on the verge of explaining the universe’s missing gamma rays and hidden magnetic fields.

Is the universe thinking and learning on some level? This is a thorny subject, but one that some researchers are willing to consider. According to research that was published in the pre-print server ...