Progress in the foundations of physics is moving slowly. And yet it moves. Today I look at the five biggest problems in physics, what their status is, and how long it will ta ...

A team of physicists from the University at Buffalo has developed a user-friendly method that allows researchers to solve ...

Quantum physics and mechanics are transforming the energy industry through breakthroughs in energy harvesting, ...

Six physicists in the nuclear energy industry talk about their career paths, and how a background in physics can be used across the sector ...

Commercial fusion energy may be one step closer after engineers at Princeton developed a tool to make sustained fusion reactions more stable. Nuclear fusion is a process that creates energy in the ...

A line of engineering research seeks to develop computers that can tackle a class of challenges called combinatorial optimization problems. These are common in real-world applications such as ...

Quantum mechanics describes the weird behavior of microscopic particles. Using quantum systems to perform computation ...

John Clarke, Michel H Devoret, and John M Martinis have been honoured for their work on quantum mechanical effects. What are ...

In the 100th-anniversary year of quantum mechanics, which describes the universe at its smallest, most fundamental scales, ...

Physics has a bit of a messy problem: There's matter missing in our universe. Something is there that we can't see, but scientists can detect. "When we look at how stars move in galaxies, they move as ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering ...

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in California. He was 88. Winston was a University of Chicago professor in the ...