One of the most famous experiments in physics is also one that illustrates, with disturbing simplicity, the bizarreness of the quantum world. The experiment consisted of two slits, through which ...

Recognised as a health profession by the International Labour Organization, medical physicists work closely with radiation oncologists, imaging specialists and other scientists and health ...

In 1975, a paper was published in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters that was co-authored by a cat. This wasn’t ...

A team of physicists from the universities of Amsterdam, Princeton and Oxford have shown that extremely light particles known as axions may occur in large clouds around neutron stars. These axions ...

This so-called neutron lifetime problem has perplexed scientists for decades, but now physicists at TU Wien in Austria have come up with a possible explanation. The difference in lifetimes, they say, ...

Oct. 31, 2024 — Researchers have come up with a way to turn silicon into a direct bandgap semiconductor, opening the door to the manufacture of ultrathin silicon ... Development of a Simple ...

Researchers have long been hunting for a way to make the elusive elements more stable so they can be better studied.

The study is co-authored by Babak Seradjeh, Professor of Physics within the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, with theoretical physicists Rekha Kumari and Arijit ...

Fire watchers: To study the physics of firebrands – embers generated by wildfires – UC Irvine researchers set up an experiment at the UC Berkeley Blodgett Forest Research Station in California’s ...

Some physicists believe that a fifth fundamental force could be the cause of some observational anomalies. A new study is investigating ways to closely examine the trajectories of well-documented ...

Then, in 2020, the growth rate nearly doubled. Scientists were baffled — and concerned. Methane is the big question mark hanging over the world’s climate estimates; although it breaks down in ...

Nov. 6, 2024 — Supersolids are a new form of quantum matter that has only recently been demonstrated. The state of matter can be produced artificially in ultracold, dipolar quantum gases. A team ...