A team of physicists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, the Center for New Technologies at the ...

For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like — an optical ...

Scientists have developed an ultra-thin, paper-like LED that emits a warm, sunlike glow, promising to revolutionize how we light up our homes, devices, and workplaces. By engineering a balance of red, ...

USC engineers have developed an optical system that routes light autonomously using thermodynamic principles. Rather than ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. This infrared snapshot of a region in the constellation Carina near the Milky Way was taken shortly after NASA's Wide ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. New Horizons succeeded in observing the first occultations of Pluto's atmosphere by ultraviolet stars, an important ...

Physicists have measured both the momentum and position of a particle without breaking Heisenberg’s iconic uncertainty principle. In quantum mechanics, particles don’t have fixed properties the way ...

Physicists have devised a new model to account for the discomfort that airline passengers know all too well. By Alexander Nazaryan Bjorn Birnir dreads an airplane seatmate asking what he does for a ...

The ALICE Collaboration is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for transforming lead into gold for a fraction of a second and exposing the strange physics that goes on inside the Large Hadron ...

How many animals are used in taxpayer-funded experiments every year? The truth is, no one knows. Estimates range from 10 million to 110 million, but the federal government doesn’t collect accurate ...

Many scientists dream of winning a Nobel Prize, an accolade that brings worldwide recognition, prestige and a place in the pantheon of greatness alongside the likes of Albert Einstein, Marie Curie and ...