A new method developed at the University of Warwick offers the first simple and predictive way to calculate how irregularly ...

Virtual particles exploit the natural fuzziness of the subatomic world, where if these ephemeral particles live briefly enough, they can also briefly borrow their energy from empty space. The haziness ...

Real particles are lumps of energy that can be "seen" or detected by appropriate instruments; this feature is what makes them ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

Georgy Karpenko shares his experience working on iconic projects around the world, discusses the influence of different ...

Stockholm — John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for research on seemingly obscure quantum tunneling that is advancing digital technology.

The method, developed by researchers at the State University of Campinas in Brazil, uses images of dune surfaces to estimate ...

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

A giraffe's long legs aren't just for height, they save energy by reducing how hard the heart works to pump blood upward against gravity.

A magnetic flow meter relies on Faraday's Law of Induction to measure the flow of a fluid. Magnets outside the pipe create a ...

The simulation of strongly interacting many-body systems is a key objective of quantum physics research, as it can help to ...