Scientists have been using complicated, hypothetical particles to explain the Big Bang, but this theory posits that a simpler ...

In 1992, three physicists began an argument about how many numbers we need to fully describe the universe. Their surprisingly ...

Quantum information systems, systems that process, store or transmit information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could ...

In 1957, Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee won the Nobel Prize for discovering parity law violations in weak interactions, ...

Physicists are eyeing charged gravitinos—ultra-heavy, stable particles from supergravity theory—as possible Dark Matter candidates. Unlike axions or WIMPs, these particles carry electric charge but ...

Chen-Ning Yang, a world-renowned physicist and recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize, has died in Beijing at the age of 103, Chinese state media reported on Saturday.The cause of death was cited simply as ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum ...

Nobel Prize winners show how superconducting circuits can exhibit quantum behavior, leading to transformative technologies.

Plasma is a state of matter that emerges when a gas is heated to sufficiently high temperatures, prompting some electrons to become free from atoms. This state of matter has been the focus of many ...

On Tuesday the field of quantum mechanics received a thoughtful 100th-birthday present from the Royal Swedish Academy of ...

The true “informational age” of the cosmos may be 62 billion years, not just the 13.8 billion years of our current expansion.

In January I wrote a piece titled “ 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know .” Lots of you weighed in with your own ...