The performance of many next-generation devices depends on controlling how energy flows at extremely small scales. In the ...

“However, a quantum computer can only function properly if its qubits are not disturbed too much,” Schützhold emphasizes. Engineers protect qubits by shielding them from electromagnetic radiation and ...

Electrons zipping through transistors, powering the screens on our smartphones. Light zooming from distant stars to Earth, ...

Scientists have pinned down why a sprinkler spins when it sucks in water instead of spraying it out — a problem that stumped ...

Quantum materials could transform technologies ranging from powerful computers and highly secure communications to advanced ...

Researchers at New York University’s Courant Institute conducted a series of experiments with different silly sprinkler designs to find the answer to a longstanding problem in fluid dynamics, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is opening up new possibilities for physics research, from improving laser experiments to accelerating cancer prediction and analysing massive scientific datasets, ...

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended up being too simple.

German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous ...

While it may not be quite as absurd as the idea of Earth losing its gravity, there’s a new online rumor going around that makes one wonder if those who believe it haven’t already consumed something ...

Physicists may have uncovered a surprising new clue that string theory—the idea that the universe is built from unimaginably tiny vibrating strings—could be more than just a mathematical fantasy.