There are few sports more exciting than playoff baseball, but behind every pitch there is also a fascinating story of physics ...

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

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

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

A mathematical proof has finally debunked the idea that we live in a simulation, according to a group of international ...

The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.The International ...

Albert Einstein, everyone’s favorite wild-haired genius with a mischievous grin, is more than just a pop culture icon whose legend lives on today. He’s arguably the most influential scientist of the ...

The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the ...

Imagine a particle so ghostly that over 100 trillion of them could pass through you every single second without you noticing ...

Physics-based machine learning unlocks 3D printing potential, thanks to work from Lehigh University's Parisa Khodabakhshi.

Two Caltech historians associated with the Einstein Papers Project have gathered together what they consider to be the most important of Einstein's ...

Ramanujan's formula, derived by the mathematician in 1914 when quantum theory hadn't been formulated fully, provides a faster ...