Faster, more efficient, and more versatile—these are the expectations for the technology that will produce our energy and handle information in the future. But how can these expectations be met? A ...

In disordered solids, atoms vibrate around their equilibrium positions, transferring energy and momentum as phonons. When the phonon wavelength is much larger than the atomic scale, phonons behave ...

The team select some of their favourite stories from the past 12 months.

A new theory of "dark photons" attempted to explain a centuries-old experiment in a new way this year, in an effort to change ...

When black holes collide, the impact radiates into space like the sound of a bell in the form of gravitational waves. But ...

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

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

Physicists spotted a “terribly exciting” new black hole, doubled down on weakening dark energy, and debated the meaning of ...

High-precision measurements from the KATRIN experiment strongly limit the existence of light sterile neutrinos and narrow the search for new physics. Neutrinos are extremely difficult to detect, yet ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb highlights 3I/ATLAS' baffling sunward jet after a 16° gravitational twist, defying known ...

The European Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics is one of the world's leading scientific institutions. Securing it ...

Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars explode. Astronomers have obtained images of two stellar explosions, called ...