A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

In Millikan's experiment, an oil drop became a microscopic messenger, revealing the quantized nature of electric charge, a cornerstone of modern physics. This ingenious experiment, conducted by Robert ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

When a physicist runs the numbers on a black hole passing through a human body, the result is not a cinematic vaporization ...

Physicists have demonstrated with unprecedented accuracy that the speed of light remains constant. In 1887, a landmark physics experiment was carried out by American researchers Michelson and Morley.

Quantum theory fails to explain how the reality we experience emerges from the world of particles. A new take on quantum ...

Students with an interest in sports looking to add a science course to their schedule may consider an updated four credit-hour version of a course offered through the physics department: Physics 1111: ...

Video-based anomaly detection in urban surveillance faces a fundamental challenge: scale-projective ambiguity. This occurs when objects of different physical sizes appear identical in camera images ...

The primary force at play when a block slides down an inclined plane is gravity. Gravity acts vertically downwards, pulling ...

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside ...

Will AI usher in a new era of growth, or will the gravity of rising debt, persistent inflation, and political uncertainty ...

For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous, enigmatic structures buried deep inside Earth with features so ...