More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

A recent study published in Nuclear Physics B examines how hidden dimensions might influence the physical reality that we ...

Laurent Simons, 15, already earned a PhD in quantum physics, aiming to extend human life with ultracold science and AI ...

Neural and computational evidence reveals that real-world size is a temporally late, semantically grounded, and hierarchically stable dimension of object representation in both human brains and ...

When two black holes merge or two neutron stars collide, gravitational waves can be generated. They spread at the speed of ...

Astronomers have produced the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the sun's atmosphere, a shifting, ...

In 1919, physicist Theodor Kaluza hypothesized that extra dimensions might solve some outstanding problems in physics. And while we haven't found any evidence yet for anything outside our normal ...

Researchers have been looking at everything, including supernovas, trying to uncover the mysteries of dark matter. Recent scientific studies suggest that dark matter might not be a particle hiding in ...

The briefing book of the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics was published in October. Paris Sphicas highlights key takeaways from each of its 10 themes in fundamental science ...

The National Academies shall appoint a panel to assess independently the scientific and technical work performed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Physical Measurement ...

“How quantum mechanics and gravity fit together is one of the most important outstanding problems in physics,” Kathryn Zurek, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech ...

Schematic of the absolute distance measurement system based on the optical frequency comb interferometry developed by KRISS. Credit: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) Fast, ...