Physics attempts to both answer philosophical questions about the nature of the universe and provide solutions to technological problems. By patterning an ultrathin layered structure with tiny ...

Electronics, photonics and device physics is the study and development of components for processing information or for system control. Electronics operates using electrons, whereas photonics uses ...

Vorticity, a measure of the local rotation or swirling motion in a fluid, has long been studied by physicists and ...

Physicists have long wondered why particles can only have an electric charge of +1, -2 or any whole number. Now we ...

This week marks the centenary of the French physicist Louis de Broglie's doctoral thesis, which later earned him a Nobel ...

More generally, studying particles from outer space often demands audacious proposals, especially ones that make use of the ...

Eddy Keming Chen, associate professor of philosophy at the University of California San Diego School of Arts and Humanities, ...

Theoretical physicists demonstrate that non-invertible symmetries are quantum operations, bridging gaps between particle physics and quantum information theory.

Scientists are harnessing the alternative physics of the quantum realm to create computers of unprecedented power, ...

Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, is famously incomplete. As proven by physics Nobel laureate Roger ...

Using a groundbreaking new technique, researchers have unveiled the first detailed image of a photon — a single particle of ...