Fusion power could solve the world's energy problems. The issue is making it work in a cost-effective way. A new breakthrough ...

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the dreams of science fiction enthusiasts when he began to study the limits of ...

Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.

Scientist and physicist Ernest Rutherford, known as “the father of nuclear physics”, was the most respected Kiwi of his day.

Google’s Quantum Echoes now closes the loop: verification has become a measurable force, a resonance between consciousness and method. The many worlds seem to be bleeding together. Each observation is ...

Is the universe thinking and learning on some level? This is a thorny subject, but one that some researchers are willing to consider. According to research that was published in the pre-print server ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Progress in the foundations of physics is moving slowly. And yet it moves. Today I look at the five biggest problems in physics, what their status is, and how long it will ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists – a Briton, a Frenchman and an American – for their ground-breaking discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics. John Clarke, ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for research into quantum mechanical tunneling. The researchers will be formally awarded the prize at ...

The Nobel Prize 2025 in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis on Tuesday (October 7) “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy ...

New device emits photons in telecom fiber band from the start, so it avoids a separate converter that can waste photons.