An international team of physicists has found the best evidence yet that some heavy nuclei are not spherical or ellipsoidal – but “pear-shaped”. The researchers found clear signs of this lopsidedness ...

How does the medical physics profession perform when it comes to gender equality? (Courtesy: iStock/grifare) Physics has one of the largest gender gaps among all science, technology, engineering and ...

The electron, against predictions, appears to be perfectly round, raising questions about one of the fundamental building blocks of the universe. An electron's shape refers to that of the cloud of ...

Physicists have confirmed the existence of a new form of atomic nuclei, and the fact that it’s not symmetrical challenges the fundamental theories of physics that explain our Universe. But that's not ...

For the first time, a group of physicists has written down a warp drive concept that does not ask the universe for impossible ...

Almost anytime physicists announce that they’ve discovered a new particle, whether it’s the Higgs boson or the recently bagged double-charm tetraquark, what they’ve actually spotted is a small bump ...

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“It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something,” Charles Dickens once observed. For Julian Barbour, those musings most often involve the nature of space and time. Barbour, ...

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Klaus Hasselmann helped to shape a ground-breaking Earth-observation mission that paved the way for the modern study of our planet's environment. The German ...