In a metal like copper, however, the outer electrons swim around freely and are shared by all the atoms. That’s why ...

A faint blue dot, suspended between metal electrodes, captured imaginations around the world—and reminded us how far experimental physics has come. In Oxford, a lone ...

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

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 ...

Electricity is the lifeblood of modern life, but even the most efficient power lines lose energy along the way. For decades, ...

In his 2018 doctoral thesis, Stanford University alumnus William Gent suggested an advance for an iron-based material that, if attainable, would ...

When you think about it, baran, those little plastic grass dividers found in bentos, save space by allowing bento makers to ...

Fun fact: an instant ice pack can go past airport security as a solid, not a liquid. The day I trekked to Adobe MAX, I ...

Philip Ball dives into the challenges in developing quantum computing, and building up investments and users for the tech ...