More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his astonishing formulas for π in notebooks in India and England, ...

For more than a century, thermodynamics has described how heat flows and engines run, while quantum mechanics has ruled the ...

Symmetry chats with scientists and engineers about doing important work in physics without a doctoral degree. Ronald Richards’ father was a mechanical engineer for Ford Motor Co., and as a child in ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - When Bharat Ratra arrived at Kansas State University in 1996, he wasn’t aiming to win any prizes. But, with excellent work comes recognition. Ratra recently earned that ...

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

Quantum computers are poised to become computational superpowers, but researchers have long sought a viable problem that confers a quantum advantage — something only a quantum computer can solve. Only ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

It’s the rarest particle decay ever discovered. Scientists have clinched the case for a special type of decay of subatomic particles called kaons. Further study of the rare decay could reveal a ...

Physics is the study of the underlying laws and mechanisms explaining how the universe works. Most of what we do in daily life is based on a principle or law of physics—dealing with forces, motion, ...

In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re highlighting some of the many incredible LGBTQ+ women of both the past and present, women who overcame unimaginable obstacles to change the world. “As queer ...

Nuno Loureiro was a physicist who served as the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center. He also held faculty appointments in MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and ...