UC Berkeley emeritus professor John Clarke, UC Santa Barbara professor Michel H. Devoret and UC Santa Barbara professor John ...

After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to ...

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

What can we do as individuals to make physics a more inclusive environment? Jenni Dyer shares her top five tips A balanced workforce Recruiting and retaining a diverse staff makes good financial sense ...

Ultrathin structures that can bend, focus, or filter light, metasurfaces are reshaping how scientists think about optics.

As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing them into tiny targets. Particle accelerators, also known as particle ...

This year's Nobel Prize announcements begin on Oct. 6 and will be streamed live. Here's a look at the schedule and how to watch.

CERN, a center for physics research outside Geneva, Switzerland, is best known for discovering some of the building blocks of our universe. But scientists there are also studying new ways to treat ...