Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum ...

MIT researchers have devised a new molecular technique that lets electrons probe inside atomic nuclei, replacing massive particle accelerators with a tabletop setup. By studying radium monofluoride, ...

A new measurement method suggests that the proton, a crucial subatomic particle in the Universe, is smaller than previously believed. All visible matter in the ...

Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect ...

Students and faculty of UC Santa Barbara’s physics department gathered in Corwin Pavilion for the department’s annual Nobel Prize-focused colloquium on Oct. 14. This year’s event was particularly spec ...

This achievement makes India capable of quantum computing using the different properties of light-based particles, instead of ...

Inside the search for the tiny particles that might be causing big problems for every human being on the planet.

Now, physicists at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU), Germany, say they have made progress toward luminous miniature displays and, with the help of optical antennas, have created “the ...

Before the cosmos lit up with stars and galaxies, the universe passed through a dark, silent era. But new findings suggest ...