Virtual particles exploit the natural fuzziness of the subatomic world, where if these ephemeral particles live briefly enough, they can also briefly borrow their energy from empty space. The haziness ...

A new computational method now makes it possible to calculate the forces between large molecules with unprecedented accuracy.

Real particles are lumps of energy that can be "seen" or detected by appropriate instruments; this feature is what makes them ...

Before every takeoff, airlines calculate the exact weight of passengers and luggage to ensure proper balance and flight ...

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

Machine learning models are designed to take in data, to find patterns or relationships within those data, and to use what ...

A giraffe's long legs aren't just for height, they save energy by reducing how hard the heart works to pump blood upward ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

For decades, scientists have dreamed of creating a miniature version of the sun on Earth – a machine capable of producing ...

What happens when electrons leave a solid material? This seemingly simple phenomenon has, until now, eluded accurate ...