In 1916, only a year after Albert Einstein had published his general theory of relativity, Karl Schwarzschild used mathematical calculations to show this: If sufficient mass could be placed into an ...

In the air people breathe, the water on Earth, the stars in the sky and more, atoms are the building blocks that make up the ...

In CERN’s high-temperature superconducting laboratory near Geneva, a wiring machine combines dozens of strands of niobium–tin ...

A flame goes out, and something in the room shifts with it. Not because matter has vanished, but because a structure has ...

Researchers found friction can occur without contact, driven by magnetic dynamics, and does not always increase with load. The effect could enable controllable, wear-free technologies.

The far future of the cosmos may be less endless than it once appeared. New calculations place the decay of the universe’s ...

The muon collider was once dismissed as impossible, but is now gaining steam as the successor to the Large Hadron Collider.

Following the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, lateral flow assays (LFAs)—the category of test strips in which the ...

Scientists have taken lasers beyond light and into the realm of sound, creating a breakthrough “phonon laser” that ...

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, ...

The collective gravity of countless neutrinos gently irons out the wrinkles in the cosmic web, preventing matter from ...

Many-body physics is the study of large ensembles of interacting particles and their collective behaviour. These systems are ...