Far from Earth, in the vast expanses of space between stars, exists a treasure trove of carbon. There, in what scientists ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Researchers have created a more energy dense storage material for iron-based batteries. The breakthrough could also improve ...

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

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