A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would stay unexplained ...

Hoping to build on their success in recruiting financial and technology firms to West Palm Beach, area leaders are setting their sights on a new prize: the closely watched quantum computing industry.

The advance hints at the possibility of portable muon-making devices that could help peer through solid materials for hidden contraband.

Physicists have worked out how to make beams of muons without using a huge particle accelerator 1. Muons are subatomic particles that form when cosmic rays collide with particles in the Earth’s upper ...

The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has brought this week’s Nobel announcements to a conclusion.

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for experimental demonstration of quantum effects.

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research on quantum tunneling. Clarke expressed surprise at the win, acknowledging the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Zhixin Wang, University of California, Santa Barbara (THE CONVERSATION) The 2025 Nobel ...

On Oct. 9, Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for work the judges said upholds the power of art in the midst of “apocalyptic terror.” His surreal and ...

Three physicists, including a pair of University of California, Santa Barbara professors, have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for essentially bridging the gap between the invisible ...

Driven by tech dollars and demand, nuclear fusion might soon be available to power artificial intelligence. To get a sense of the energy needs of AI, look at the size of the datacenters Big Tech is ...