The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) has published the updated Class 12 syllabus for the 2025-26 academic year. Students intending to take the October 2025 examinations should download this ...

CBSE CLass 12 Physics: The CBSE Class 12 Physics Half Yearly Exam 2025 plays an important role in evaluating students’ conceptual clarity and problem-solving skills. Physics often demands both theory ...

Ultrathin structures that can bend, focus, or filter light, metasurfaces are reshaping how scientists think about optics.

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...

Atoms in crystalline solids sometimes vibrate in unison, giving rise to emergent phenomena known as phonons. Because these collective vibrations set the pace for how heat and energy move through ...

Optical physics is the study of the fundamental properties of light and its interaction with matter. This includes classical optical phenomena such as reflection, refraction, diffraction and ...

Physicists have achieved a breakthrough by using a 58-qubit quantum computer to create and observe a long-theorized but never-before-seen quantum phase of matter: a Floquet topologically ordered state ...

Multifocus microscope A new microscope combines diffractive optics with 25 tiny cameras to simultaneously image at multiple depths. (Courtesy: Eduardo Hirata Miyasaki) A new high-speed multifocus ...

Stellar image: The winning image captures the core of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) in exceptional detail (courtesy: Weitang Liang, Qi Yang, Chuhong Yu) Photographers Weitang Liang, Qi Yang and Chuhong ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...