In Hefei, China, physicists switched on a new machine that pushed magnetic fields to record strength. As the device powered ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for research into quantum mechanical tunneling.

The future of computing lies in the surprising world of quantum physics, where the rules are much different from the ones ...

Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time ...

In his doctoral thesis in nuclear physics, Jouni Ruotsalainen measured the Q values of nuclear decays by measuring the mass ...

Virtual particles may not be real, but they help physicists track how forces move, and allow for incredibly precise ...

Madison, scientists at startup Realta Fusion published two papers outlining the viability of the magnetic mirror design for nuclear fusion devices, making it competitive with more highly-researched ...

This new machine pushed the strength of magnetic fields to a record 35.1 tesla when turned on, a new milestone in ...

Chinese researchers announced on Sunday that they have generated a stable magnetic field of 351,000 gauss using a fully ...

Tokamaks are machines that are meant to hold and harness the power of the sun. These fusion machines use powerful magnets to contain a plasma hotter ...

Physicists have found a way to redistribute uncertainty in quantum measurements, paving the way for ultra-sensitive ...

A team from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Princeton University is the winner of the prestigious 2025 John ...