A series of quantum physics experiments and theoretical papers now suggest that heat can flow spontaneously from a cold ...

Two independent lines of evidence from the world’s most powerful particle experiments are converging on the same ...

Physicists in Germany have carried out the most accurate measurement to date of the width of the proton. By examining a previously unexplored energy-level transition in the hydrogen atom, Lothar ...

Scientists have long seen a puzzling pattern in tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines that could one day reliably generate electricity from fusing atoms. When plasma particles escape the core of the ...

“The theoretical framework we developed explains how quasiparticles emerge in systems with an extremely heavy impurity, ...

A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, a riddle that has persisted in nuclear physics for decades ...

Inertia Enterprises, a commercial fusion energy company, announced a $450 million investment "to bring limitless clean energy ...

A new theory suggests the universe’s greatest secrets are hiding in a “zeptouniverse” that’s ready to be explored—without ...

Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla has used a water blob to explain Earth's shape. Discover the physics of surface tension, rotation, and inertia in this space and physics explainer.

The carbon filament used in Edison’s 1897 light bulb experiments generated the precise amount of heat needed to produce ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping to pave a path for the eventual discovery ...

Quote of the day: Blaise Pascal, who lived from 1623 to 1662, made lasting contributions to probability theory, fluid ...