Latest Physics Stories
For the First Time, Humans See Quantum Entanglement With the Naked Eye
Researchers Build a Transistor Out Of a Single Electron
Researchers Succeed in Quantum Teleportation of Light Waves
“Einstein’s Pedometer” App Measures How Special Relativity Affects Your Daily Activity
Fermilab Physicists Have Detected A Possible New Particle or New Force
How One Man Waged War Against Gravity
Your Nose Could Use Quantum Tunneling to Distinguish Between Similar Molecules
Graphene Could Help Physicists Probe the Higgs Boson’s Secrets
To Improve Astronomic Measurements, Scientists Want To Launch A Light Bulb Into Space
As if Quantum Teleportation Weren’t Spooky Enough, Physicists Propose ‘Time Teleportation’
LHC Reports Failure To Create Black Holes, a Setback For String Theory
The Pioneer Anomaly, a 30-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery, May Be Resolved At Last
Deep Below South Dakota, a Mine Becomes a Physics Lab, and Miners Return to Work
Making Something From Nothing: Researchers Find That Matter Can Be Conjured from a Vacuum
Wikileaked Cables from Beijing Reveal China’s Pursuit of Fusion Power, Teleportation
Brilliant 10: Chiara Daraio, the Sound Magician
Physicists Conjure the First Super-Photon, Creating a Whole New Kind of Light Source
Brilliant 10: Ian Spielman, the Control Freak
Fermilab is Building a ‘Holometer’ to Determine Once and For All Whether Reality Is Just an Illusion
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded For Graphene, the Material of the Future
In Two New Breakthroughs, Scientists Capture Individual Atoms
In Test of Relativity Theory, Superaccurate Atomic Clocks Prove Your Head Ages Nanoseconds Faster than Your Feet
Fundamental Physics Laws Change Depending on When and Where You Are, New Study Says
Researchers Devise the First Experimental Test of Controversial, Confusing String Theory
Thirty-Year-Old Encryption Formula Can Resist Quantum-Computing Attacks That Defeat All Common Codes
Particle Accelerators Could Be Used to Produce Energy (and Plutonium)
For the First Time, Scientists Watch Electrons Move in Real Time
By Manipulating Condensation Conditions, Researchers Create Room-Temperature Ice
German Scientists Measure How Fast an Electron Jumps, the Shortest Time Interval Ever Measured
Are We Living Inside a Black Hole?
Quantum Time Machine Lets You Travel to the Past Without Fear of Grandfather Paradox
CERN Physicists To Build Longest-Ever Linear Particle Accelerator
Quantum Entanglement May Hold DNA Together, New Study Says
LHC Scientists Simulate the Sound of the ‘God Particle’
Scientists Spot Subatomic Particles Underground: Geoneutrinos May Help Drive Earth’s Internal Heat
Researchers Achieve Quantum Teleportation Over 10 Miles of Empty Space
Tevatron Particle Study Finds Exciting New Clue to Why Everything Exists
Birds May Use Quantum Mechanics To Migrate South
New Metamaterial First to Bend Light in the Visible Spectrum
Physicist Creates Most Magnetic Material on Earth, Might Overturn Laws of Physics
New Evidence that Mysterious Dark Force From Outside Tugs at Our Universe
Fastest Binary Stars Ever Discovered Orbit Each Other at 310 Miles Per Second
A Computer That Processes Faster Than The Speed of Light
The Secret Lives of Particle Accelerators
Physics Student Petitions For “Hella” to Be Next SI Unit Prefix
A New Look at Newton’s Second Law Could Explain Away the Existence of Dark Matter
World’s Most Sensitive Neutrino Experiment Launches, To Seek Answers About Matter’s Origins
RHIC Collider Creates Quark-Gluon Plasma at 4,000,000,000,000 Degrees Celsius
Video: What Would You See As You Plummet Into a Black Hole?
Physicists Prove Teleportation of Energy Is Possible
Ultra-Strong Biomimetic Adhesive Could Allow Human Wall-Walking, Ceiling-Dancing
MIT Experiment Envisions a New Way to Harness Fusion Power (With a 1,000-Pound Magnet)
An Electrifying Christmas Light Display, Courtesy of Nikola Tesla
FYI: Would a Helium-Filled Balloon Float on the Moon?
Practical Steps Toward a Quantum Propulsion Machine
Scientists Test First Universal Programmable Quantum Computer
Baguette Dropped From Bird’s Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really)
How To Fix a Broken Collider: the LHC’s Restart Checklist
The Physics of the Balloon Boy
How Many Universes are There? Physicists Actually Try to Answer the Question
Artificial Black Hole Created in Chinese Lab
Newly Discovered Magnetic Monopole Particles Flow Like Electric Currents
Scientists Find Fundamental Maximum Limit for Processor Speeds
Real or Fake? The World’s Longest Basketball Shot