Latest Physics Stories
Scientists Add Ingredient To Make Ice Cream Melt Slower
A New Spin on Bowling
The Race To Prove ‘Spooky’ Quantum Connection May Have a Winner
Strange, Unexplained Solar Influence Over Earth’s Radioactive Material Could Herald Solar Flares
Researchers Smash Quantum Teleportation Distance Record, Beaming a Photon Over 89 Miles
The Breakdown: Tic The Spinning Hamster
The Physics of Free Running
We may finally know where the ‘ghost particles’ that surround us come from
New Steps Towards A Real Invisibility Cloak
The complex physics behind bending it like a World Cup player
New LHC Results: We Were Sure We Found the Higgs Boson, and Now We’re Even Surer
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Aug 2, 2012
Is Warp Speed Possible? We Ask a String Theorist
Stephen Hawking Answers Our Questions On The Breakthrough Starshot Initiative
Nine Unsuspecting Scientists Win $27 Million in Suddenly Announced Largest-Ever Annual Physics Prize
Speed Of Light In Vacuum Is Not Actually Constant, Study Finds
And the Oscar Goes To: Fluid Simulation Algorithms!
Smartphone Clocks Could Keep Precise Time By Syncing With Fluorescent Lights’ Flicker
The Zero-Energy Frontier: Racing to Find the Higgs Boson
Canada’s Prime Minister Knows A Thing Or Two About Quantum Computers
The Physics of Nascar
The Breakdown: Defying Death at the Gym
Would My DeLorean Fly If I Popped Its Gull-Wing Doors and Floored it?
Physicists Propose Building a Crystal of Space-Time
New Theory Postulates Galaxy-Sized Neutrinos, Expanding Since the Beginning of Time
The Science of Superheroes
Physics Students Say A Gliding Batman Would Die Upon Landing
Science Finally Understands How Cereal Gets Soggy
How the new World Cup ball was designed to not influence the games
Scientists Create New Quantum State Of Water By Squeezing It
A Diamond Quantum Bit Holds Data for Nearly Two Seconds at Room Temperature
Hello, Higgs Boson: LHC’s New Particle Looks Like the Real Thing
Laser Camera Makes 3-D Photos Of Objects A Kilometer Away
Tantalizing Signs of Higgs Boson Found By U.S. Tevatron Collider
New “Cosmic Pregnancy Test” Predicts Birth of a Star
This Star Went Supernova With The Force Of 100 Million Exploding Suns
Happy Birthday To Brilliant Mathematician Leonhard Euler
That Meteorite Impact Last Week: Did it Really Happen?
Move Over, Silicon; Here Come Quantum Bismuth Chips
CERN Confirms: Large Hadron Collider Downed By Small Beech Marten
We may finally know how Easter Island’s giant statues got their jaunty stone hats
Saser: The Sonic Laser
How Physics Can Help Solve Crimes
Does a black hole ever die?
We’ve Finally Figured Out What Makes LED Bulbs So Inefficient
Take A Look At The Infinity Machine
Berkeley Lab Builds a Desktop Particle Accelerator
A Magnetic Explosion In Space, Seen Up Close For The First Time
Ever Wonder What Those Science Symbols Really Mean?
The Nobel Prize in physics honors insights on black holes—including the one in our own galaxy
Chinese Physicists Teleport Photons Over 100 Kilometers
Watch An X-Ray Laser Vaporize Liquid Droplets In Minute Detail
The universe may be a giant video game, but it certainly isn’t Pac-Man
Aluminum Blasted With X-Ray Laser Reveals New Transparent State of Matter
This Is The Sound Of Particles Smashing Together
Could There Be A Fifth Fundamental Force Of Nature?
Shipping A 50-Foot Magnet Across The U.S., For Physics
Learn How Supernovas Work With Stephen Colbert
NIST’s Quantum Simulator Mimics Hundreds of Qubits Interacting
Singer Simonne Jones Fuses Pop Music and Quantum Physics
In New Quantum Experiment, Effect Happens Before Cause
It’s rude to ask a galaxy’s age. Luckily, its shape offers a clue.
For the First Time, Electrons are Observed Splitting into Smaller Quasi-Particles
Students Invent a Pothole Repair Patch Made from a Non-Newtonian Fluid
The Fastest-Ever Random Number Generator Conjures Digits from Subatomic Noise in a Vacuum