By miniaturizing THz spectroscopy to a chip-scale platform, James McIver’s lab has uncovered a promising new method for controlling quantum materials. Under certain conditions, two-dimensional (2D) ...

As far as particles of light are concerned, the collective is more important than the individual. When they get to decide ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

Dark matter, the substance that makes up about 27% of the universe, could potentially be detected as a red or blue light ...

Scientists have created the first real-time 3D simulations of how lasers alter the quantum vacuum. Using cutting-edge computational modeling, scientists from the University of Oxford, in collaboration ...

A new method using gold flakes, salt water, and light reveals the tiny forces that bind matter and drive self-assembly, ...

In 1964, physicist John Bell formulated what became known as Bell's Theorem, showing that if quantum mechanics is correct, ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...

He led a team of scientists who helped confirm that a Big Bang was the source of the universe. The discovery earned him a ...

Gómez Marín, a doctor in theoretical physics, described the seven-second episode in which he found himself bathed in an ...

In a stunning leap for quantum optics, scientists have generated ultrafast light pulses whose quantum uncertainty can be ...

A neuroscientist who 'died' for seven seconds says he met with three mysterious figures who offered him the choice of either ...