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

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

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

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 ...

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

Physicists suggest that a single, extraordinarily powerful cosmic signal detected on Earth could be linked to the explosive ...

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

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

When the universe first burst into being, all of space was a cosmic cauldron filled with a roiling, fiery liquid of ...

The UK is scrapping more than £250mn of planned funding for four big physics infrastructure projects, including an upgrade of the Cern particle accelerator led since last month by a senior British ...

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