The supercollider is now being used to explore quantum phenomena, including a “magic” form of quantum entanglement.

UCSB physicists John Martinis and Michel Devoret have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. They were recognized for work that, according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, “revealed ...

Tachyons are hypothetical particles that travel at speeds greater than the speed of light. These superluminal particles, are the "enfant terrible" of modern physics. Until recently, they were ...

Physicists have developed a novel approach to solving one of the most persistent problems in theoretical physics: uniting gravity with the quantum world. In a recent paper published in the journal ...

More than 200 years ago, physicist Thomas Young amazed the scientific world when he showed that light behaves like both a ...

Wolfgang Pauli was in something of an agitated state. The Austrian scientist found himself in Rome in 1931, in a seething mixture of nervousness, excitement, and consternation. Only 31, he was already ...

Science continually evolves, moving away from once-accepted theories that now seem outdated. This video explores five ...

One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. In the 1990s, long before winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his prediction of black holes, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would ...

More than 200 years ago, the English scientist Thomas Young carried out a famous test known as the “double-slit experiment.” He shone a beam of light at a screen with two slits in it, and observed ...

New research offers an intriguing variation on the famous experiment, which proved light behaves as both a particle and a wave. reading time 2 minutes A team of physicists has recreated a classic ...