Discover how reading a quantum clock can surprisingly cost more energy than keeping it ticking, impacting timekeeping and ...

Speckle contrast optical spectroscopy provides a cost-effective way to assess cerebral blood flow for diagnosis of neurological disorders ...

The Franklin Institute announced Nov. 11 that it is awarding the 2026 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, one of the nation’s ...

The same pulling force that causes “tears” in a glass of wine also shapes embryos. It’s another example of how genes exploit ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

Scientists learned that reading a quantum clock requires orders of magnitude more energy than running it. This surprising imbalance reveals that observation itself shapes the flow and thermodynamics ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the ...

Artificial intelligence is learning without understanding meaning. A global data revolution has stripped away essential ...

Superconductors are like the express trains in a metro system. Any electricity that "boards" a superconducting material can ...

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a surprising source of entropy in quantum timekeeping - the act of measurement itself. In a study published today (14 Nov) in Physical Review ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, SN 2024ggi, revealed a surprisingly olive-shaped blast when studied with ...

Soil moisture is a key factor driving the Earth's water and carbon cycles, but large-scale monitoring has long been hindered ...