Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have uncovered previously unobserved oscillation ...

Using a magnetic compass to calculate the current in a wire. Learn how magnetic fields, compass deflection, and basic electromagnetism principles connect in a practical physics experiment. #MagneticFi ...

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

China's Tiangong space station has been the setting for an innovative experiment on lithium-ion batteries, conducted by the three astronauts of the ...

Key TakeawaysJohn Clarke, a former scientist at Berkeley Lab, shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering quantum tunneling in an electric ...

A new kind of plasma accelerator has cleared a hurdle that has dogged the field for decades, lifting electron energy and beam ...

Key TakeawaysFor the first time, researchers simultaneously used ultrafast X-rays and electrons to image a shockwave in water ...

Researchers uncover geometric principles governing how particles self-assemble, solving a long-standing challenge in ...

A deeply disturbing and controversial line of thinking has emerged within the physics community. It's the idea that we are reaching the absolute limit of what we can understand about the world around ...

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The challenge: the process seemed random and notoriously difficult to predict.

Four researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have been awarded prestigious ERC Consolidator Grants by the European Research Council ...

When scientists repeatedly drove a strongly interacting quantum system with laser “kicks,” they expected it to heat up and ...