Tammy Ma, director the Livermore Institute for Fusion Technology, can explain why her work with nuclear fusion is a step toward abundant clean energy.

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing that idea is challenging.

Physicists have watched a quantum fluid do something once thought almost impossible: stop moving. In experiments with ...

In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists have performed the first global simulations of monster shocks ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Physicists at Heidelberg University have developed a new theory that finally unites two long-standing and seemingly incompatible views of how exotic particles behave inside quantum matter. In some ...

Even before competing in his first Olympics, 21-year-old Ilia Malinin has transformed the sport of figure skating.

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIRCAS) has developed a ...

The UK government is to slash by 30 percent its funding for astronomy, particle and nuclear physics in a move branded as ...

A short circuit sparked a massive fire on Thursday at a leading physics laboratory in the western German city of Darmstadt, ...

Dive into a fun and surprising physics analysis as we examine the iconic escape pod from Star Wars IV—and uncover a hilarious revelation: it was actually shaped like a KFC bucket! In this video, we ...