Physics

Five years ago, NASA researchers experimented with an object called the EmDrive (or electromagnetic drive), a…

Inside a locked cabinet, an envelope held a number that was poised to rock the physics community, regardless of its…

For a little more than a week in July 2018, a team of physicists at CERN tried a new technique to slow down…

Microsoft is an outlier among the companies investing in quantum computing research. Unlike Google, IBM, or the…

Scientists are celebrating the long-sought discovery of the odderon, a strange phenomenon that appears only rarely…

On Saturday, a team of Russian researchers dropped a brand-new telescope into frigid Lake Baikal, the deepest lake…

Over the Christmas season of 2019, four physicists hovered over two minuscule gold orbs, each about the size of a…

A small-scale nuclear reactor at a government neutron research facility was shut down last week after it began to…

A team of researchers recently strapped a dismembered carnivorous plant to a sensitive instrument in Berlin, in a…

First conceived in the combustion of a hydrogen bomb on the South Pacific island of Elugelab in 1952, the heavy…

An investigation into the way oils behave on hot, flat surfaces has uncovered the process responsible for foods…

In the 1950s, when physicists were racing to invent the first laser, they found that the rules of quantum mechanics…

After axions were first theorized by physicists in the suburbs of Chicago 45 years ago, they quickly became a robust…

Using a signal from dozens of rapidly spinning, dead stars, astrophysicists have gotten closer to realizing their…