Latest Physics Stories
How Particle Physics Can Improve Your Netflix Recommendations
Lifting James’ Giant Peach Would Have Required Way More Seagulls Than Roald Dahl Said
Scientists Send A Cloud Of Atoms Plunging Below Absolute Zero
5 Of Physics’s Greatest Sex Scandals
Which City Has The Most Nobel Prize Winners? [Infographic]
Researchers Achieve Quantum Teleportation Between Two Macroscopic Objects For The First Time
BigPic: The Science Of Lubricated Hamsters
The First ‘Perfect’ Invisibility Cloak Completely Conceals Objects (From Microwaves)
Experience Relativity Firsthand In MIT Video Game That Slows The Speed Of Light
Large Hadron Collider Unleashes Rampaging Zombies
How Do We Know We’re Not Living Inside A Massive Computer Simulation?
How The Physics Nobel Winners Imprison Subatomic Particles
With Basic Physics, You Can Beat the House At Roulette
After The LHC: The Next Really Big Experiments In Particle Physics
“Looper” And The Real Science Of Time Travel
Why Not To Keep Your Liquid Nitrogen In A Sealed Container
The Labs That Go Boom: The Plasma Physics Laboratory Makes Miniature Suns
The Labs That Go Boom: How to Run a Nuclear Reactor
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
New LHC Results: We Were Sure We Found the Higgs Boson, and Now We’re Even Surer
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Nine Unsuspecting Scientists Win $27 Million in Suddenly Announced Largest-Ever Annual Physics Prize
Smartphone Clocks Could Keep Precise Time By Syncing With Fluorescent Lights’ Flicker
The Zero-Energy Frontier: Racing to Find the Higgs Boson
Physicists Propose Building a Crystal of Space-Time
Physics Students Say A Gliding Batman Would Die Upon Landing
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
Tantalizing Signs of Higgs Boson Found By U.S. Tevatron Collider
Chinese Physicists Teleport Photons Over 100 Kilometers
NIST’s Quantum Simulator Mimics Hundreds of Qubits Interacting
In New Quantum Experiment, Effect Happens Before Cause
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
How It Would Work: Creating a Quantum Computer
While the LHC Hunts Higgs, the Jefferson Accelerator Looks to Illuminate Mysterious ‘Dark Photons’
The World’s Most Sensitive Scale Can Weigh Single Protons
“Jarno Smeets” and the Physics of True Human Flight
For the First Time, a Message Sent With Neutrinos
New Breed of ‘Nuclear Clocks’ Could be 100 Times More Accurate than Today’s Atomic Timekeepers
Captured: The First-Ever Images of Atoms Moving Inside a Molecule
Tevatron Finds Hints of Higgs Boson, Just Where CERN Sniffed it Last Winter
PopSci Q&A: Kate Findlay Talks About the Confluence of Quilting and the Large Hadron Collider
MIT Scientist Offers $100,000 to Anyone Who Can Prove Quantum Computing Is Impossible
Physicists Hope to Catch Neutrons in the Act of Jumping from Our Universe to Another
Cloud-Based Quantum Computing Will Allow Secure Calculation on Encrypted Bits
The Largest-Ever Quantum Calculation Uses 84 Qubits and Takes Just 270 Milliseconds
Visualizing Fluid Dynamics in a Two-Horsepower Blender
The First Direct Measurements of Earth’s Rotation, Made With the World’s Most Stable Ring Laser
Building a Massive Neutrino Hunter Beneath the Mediterranean
Researchers Entangle Two Millimeter-Sized Diamonds, A Huge Leap in the Scale of Quantum Entanglement
The Unsplittable Bit
Quantum Scheme Could Allow Submarines to Communicate Securely
Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Might Be Explained By GPS Failing to Account For Special Relativity
Fermilab Stops Smashing Hadrons, Looks Into Smashing Muons
For the First Time, Researchers Use an Atom Interferometer to Measure Aircraft Acceleration
Baffling CERN Results Show Neutrinos Moving Faster Than the Speed of Light
Fermilab Astrophysicist’s Method Cuts Plane Boarding Times in Half
Latest Results from the Large Hadron Collider Do Not Look Good For the Supersymmetry Theory of Everything
Video: What’s Wrong With the “Flintstones” Approach to Braking
Photovoltaic Breakthrough Lets Engineered Materials Emit More Blackbody Radiation Than Physics Says They Should
Fresh Data From CERN and Tevatron Gives A Glimpse of the God Particle
Is American Foot-Dragging Pushing the Future Elsewhere?