There are many purposes that spots and stripes serve in nature, but how they form has been more of a mystery to scientists.

Physicists have uncovered how direct atom-atom interactions can amplify superradiance, the collective burst of light from ...

Such projects are often fun for students and teachers. Teachers are often intrigued and amazed by students’ ideas and ...

What do brains and the stock market have in common? While this might sound like a set-up for a joke, new research from U-M ...

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

One of 2025's three Nobel Prize in Physics winners says the trio's work is "one of the underlying reasons that cellphones work.'' ...

This year’s Nobel Prize in physics has gone to three scientists who showed that it was possible even for large systems, made up of billions of these small particles, to exhibit quantum behaviour under ...

Here is the physics behind front splitters: they increase drag to create downforce, pressing the car onto the road for better ...

Due to government shutdown restrictions currently in place in the US, the researchers who headed up this study have not been able to comment on their work Laser plasma acceleration (LPA) may be used ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

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

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