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 ...

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

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

A tool called AI-Newton can derive scientific laws from raw data, but is some way from developing human-like reasoning.

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 ...

Unsplash Most people assume that because I’m a physics major, I’m a STEM major — but at this college, that acronym doesn’t ...

Look to the east after sunset on a clear winter night and you’ll spot a bright, tightly packed collection of stars. That’s ...

Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important ...

Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has awarded four years of funding ($4.8 million) to The Grainger College of Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign. The award supports a ...

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The scientists, from Spain and Germany, say the current standard model of physics cannot explain everything we see in the universe ...

Researchers from the Department of Molecular Physics at the Fritz Haber Institute have demonstrated the first magneto-optical ...