Scientists at Harvard have built a miniature device that can twist and tune light in real time. By rotating two stacked photonic crystals and adjusting their spacing with a tiny mechanical system, ...

While Musk said that major scientific breakthroughs like those of Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein could be rare going forward ...

The centralized mega-cluster narrative is seductive – but physics, community resistance, and enterprise pragmatism are conspiring to scatter AI compute across a distributed lattice of specialized node ...

He has completed his academic career by finishing his PhD, flying back to Germany with his dad, and preparing for his next educational pursuit. This time, he will be studying medical science with a ...

For more than a century, condensed matter physics has grappled with one of its greatest unsolved challenges: how to build superconductors that operate at room temperature and transmit electricity with ...

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Physics departments chairs around the country have expressed feelings of demoralization, decreased productivity, and a reduced capacity for graduate students as a result of policy changes. These ...

A team at Idaho National Laboratory has developed a surrogate nuclear reactor that uses LEDs to safely simulate ...

Physicists show that magnetoelastic coupling, present in nearly all magnets, can generate skyrmion arrays without crystal ...

Researchers join Wellcome Leap’s international effort to better understand early biological influences on neurodevelopment.

Sofia Melani and Lucia Cicconi are driven to help girls claim their place in STEAM-related fields because they realize the ...

Sally Ride devoted nearly 20 years to teaching physics at UC San Diego, forming a deep and lasting bond with the university's mission and spirit. It was only natural, then, that three years after her ...