Which way does electricity flow through a vehicle’s electrical system? From positive to negative, or from negative to positive? Depending on your viewpoint, it can flow either way. When most people ...

Electrons in graphene just broke their own sound barrier. Scientists created a controllable electronic shockwave inside a ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John Martinis built an electrical circuit-based oscillator on a microchip.

A new color-changing material can remember and forget like a brain cell, creating self-erasing images that hide information ...

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

A new membrane system turns the natural mix of seawater and freshwater into enough electricity to produce hydrogen, showing how simple salt differences could power clean fuel generation.

“What we've experimentally found in our recent work is that a certain amount of heat can promote the chemical conversion ...

The 2025 Nobel prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for the discovery of an effect that has applications in ...

Every few weeks, it seems, yet another lab proclaims yet another breakthrough in the race to perfect solid-state batteries: ...

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

Three physicists, including a pair of University of California, Santa Barbara professors, have been awarded the 2025 Nobel ...

Think of it this way: if you roll a ball toward a wall, it will bounce back. That's normal physics. But in the quantum world, a tiny particle might sometimes pass straight through the wall, as if the ...