Charting disciplines This infographic shows the fields of physics associated with successive Nobel Prizes for Physics. Click on the image to expand. (Courtesy: Alison Tovey/IOP Publishing) Part of the ...

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The research was conducted in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Otto Brenner Foundation. The complete ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics experiments that changed the world. Physics experiments have changed the ...

Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of the greatest scientific mysteries. Solving it involves testing the fundamental laws of physics, including Albert Einstein's ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics ...

As the rivalry between quantum and classical computing intensifies, scientists are making unexpected discoveries about ...

Researchers have watched ordinary computers solve a complex quantum problem that IBM claimed could only be tackled by a ...

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A nominee must have made an outstanding contribution to chemical physics or physical chemistry within the 10 years preceding the current nomination. The award will be granted regardless of race, ...

As if searching for dark matter isn't difficult enough already, physicists may have detected another hurdle known as a "neutrino fog" from solar neutrinos streaming through Earth.

Nov. 6, 2024 — Supersolids are a new form of quantum matter that has only recently been demonstrated. The state of matter can be produced artificially in ultracold, dipolar quantum gases. A team ...