At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer ...

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that ...

A new study in Nature Physics has turned an old problem on its head by reporting a way to use the noisy interactions between ...

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists to understand for the first time how and why certain materials conduct ...

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We’ve had quantum science on our minds all year long, courtesy of 2025 being UNESCO’s International Year of Quantum Science ...

This discovery is important because it ruled out a major possibility for new physics beyond the Standard Model.

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

Science experiments that push materials and reactions to dramatic limits. The madness of George Will: Last lonely never-Trumper forges on 3 police officers shot 'without warning' while responding to ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed Vanity Fair’s article about the Trump administration it released Tuesday, arguing the interviewer was both disingenuous and committed lies of ...