A new study suggests that faint, ancient ripples in spacetime may hold the key to one of physics’ greatest mysteries.

Studying how pollen is dispersed from trees when the wind blows could help urban planners mitigate future exposure to ...

CERN scientists transported antimatter by truck for the first time, enabling ultraprecise studies that could reveal why ...

Friction usually announces itself through contact. A chair scraping across a floor, a tire gripping asphalt, a hand sliding ...

Scientists have taken a major step toward probing one of physics’ biggest mysteries—how gravity and quantum mechanics fit together—by creating the first unified way to detect tiny “ripples” in ...

After a successful rocket launch to study the northern lights in Norway, University of Iowa researchers are awaiting findings from devices they built and attached to the rocket, which measure magnetic ...

By Andrew Masuda, UC Santa Barbara An interdisciplinary team of researchers at UC Santa Barbara has been awarded a major research grant from non-profit Wellcome Leap to join an ambitious global […] ...

Electrons have three intrinsic properties: spin, charge and orbital angular momentum. Researchers have long studied how to ...

A new physics paper proposes modifications to Einstein’s theory of relativity that could solve one of the biggest issues ...

A new study uses physics to uncover why sneakers squeak on the basketball court. The findings can help scientists understand ...

A new study shows how tiny changes in atomic structure can strongly influence whether a material becomes superconducting.

During a virtual town hall Friday, March 27, the ongoing Missile Community Cancer Study reported an increased incidence of testicular cancer and Hodgkin lymphoma among missile community members.