Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.” ...

What is quantum physics? Put simply, it’s the physics that explains how everything works: the best description we have of the nature of the particles that make up matter and the forces with which they ...

Physics has a reputation as arguably the most mathematical of the sciences, but exactly what math you need to do physics varies enormously depending on what field you study, and whether you do ...

This is the first film in our new series Faces of Physics, a collection of films that reveal the working lives of people in physics and its related careers. By telling the personal stories of the ...

This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to ...

The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to three scientists for their work on understanding the climate and on disorder in complex systems.

Kai Sun of the University of Michigan is a humble physics professor with ambitious goals. "I'm mainly a paper-and-pencil type of theorist, doing analytical calculations mostly," Sun said. "My ...

Detective work in theoretical physics Date: December 29, 2020 Source: University of Münster Summary: Physicists have published a review article on the so-called dynamical density functional ...

Women are still wildly under-represented in physics – but it doesn't have to be like that. Our special report looks at the steps we can take to improve things ...

Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann pioneered work on computer simulations of Earth’s climate. Giorgio Parisi found hidden patterns in disordered complex materials.