Solar cells face significant challenges when deployed in outer space, where extremes in the environment decrease the efficiency and longevity they enjoy back on Earth. University of Toledo physicists ...
The ice in a domestic freezer is remarkably different from the single crystals that form in snow clouds, or even those formed ...
Research led by scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and ...
Tech wealth is pouring into fundamental science again, with a new $1 billion pledge aimed at helping CERN build the next generation of particle collider and push beyond the discoveries of the Large ...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden ‒ U.S.-based scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for "experiments that revealed quantum physics in action," paving the way ...
Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.
Engineering companies face a fundamental problem: simulation technology from a handful of vendors has created an oligopoly where corporate decision-making, not technological advancement, determines ...
An obscure theory of elementary particles proved to be key to China’s re-emergence as a scientific nation after the Cultural ...
No single country or region dominates quantum-physics research in the Nature Index; institutions from China, Europe and the United States all feature in the top 10. The University of Science and ...