The device, described in a recent Physical Review Letters paper, generates phonons—a quantum mechanical description of ...

New research suggests a particle inside an atom can lose mass, offering a fresh look at how matter works at the smallest ...

After winning a Breakthrough Prize, the world’s most lucrative science award, theoretical physicist David Gross is using the ...

David Gross, a celebrated U.S. theoretical physicist, calls himself an optimist—especially concerning the future of his field ...

Something is missing from the universe. Not misplaced, but structurally absent. About 85 percent of all matter in existence ...

Relating Noether’s theorem to introductory concepts like Newton’s laws can give students an early appreciation of its impact.

Precise electrons damage chips from the inside and reveal a quantum flaw that could revolutionize modern electronics.

While humans and animals are limited by their physiology, muscle development, and age as to how fast they can naturally run, ...

Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also ...

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Researchers led by Professor Ting Mei (Northwestern Polytechnical University) and Professors Xiaocong Yuan & Yuquan Zhang ...

Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles – the Standard Model – must be incomplete, ...