Researchers used IBM’s quantum computers to create scalable quantum circuits that simulate matter under extreme conditions, offering new insight into fundamental forces and the origins of the universe ...

In modern physics, the Higgs boson is famous for giving particles their mass. But a new study suggests an entirely different ...

When grown vertically into aligned arrays, known as nanotube “forests,” they form ideal channels for the corkscrewing laser ...

At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

Humanity has achieved remarkable feats, yet 95% of the universe remains invisible and unexplained. Our theories, general ...

Yet according to physics, information is never destroyed. In principle, a burned book is just as readable as the original—if ...

Kellogg Stelle was a professor of physics at Imperial College London for decades until his death last month. In 1977, he developed a particle theory of gravity that’s renormalizable, but the theory’s ...

Chris Neu studies dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider, bringing big ideas to his classroom and students into his lab.

The late Professor Peter Higgs has gifted his Nobel Prize medal to the university where he proposed a ground-breaking idea ...

A late physicist and professor at Edinburgh University who discovered the ‘god particle’ has donated his Nobel Prize medal to ...

The late Professor Peter Higgs has gifted his Nobel Prize to the University of Edinburgh, where he first proposed an idea ...