Physics News

A discovery made at could play an important role in electronics, allowing us to make transistors that are smaller and more energy efficient

A non-superconducting material has been transformed into a superconductor using light, Oxford University researchers report

The planet's northern magnetic pole is drifting slowly but steadily towards Russia -- and it's throwing off planes in Florida

University of Utah physicists stored information for 112 seconds in what may become the world's tiniest computer memory: magnetic "spins" in the centers or nuclei of atoms

A new image shows how the light from a quasar billions of light years away is bent around a foreground galaxy by the curvature of space

Under just the right conditions -- which involve an ultra-high-intensity laser beam and a two-mile-long particle accelerator -- it could be possible to create something out of nothing, according to University of Michigan researchers

According to researchers calculations, low mass dark matter particles could be transferring energy from the core to the external parts of the Sun, which would affect the quantity of neutrinos that reach Earth

Airplanes do not look much like birds -- unless you were to imagine a really weird bird or a very strange plane -- but should they?

Scientists have simulated, for the first time, the merger of two black holes of vastly different sizes, with one mass 100 times larger than the other. This extreme mass ratio of 100:1 breaks a barrier in the fields of numerical relativity and gravitationa

Atoms of antimatter have been trapped and stored for the first time by the ALPHA collaboration, an international team of scientists working at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva, Switzerland