Physics News

There's a catch, however: I'm unable to tell you what that insight is. Neither I, nor any of my professional physicist friends, have the faintest clue.

But there are more exotic forms of magnetism whose properties remain unclear, despite decades of intense research.

An on-going collaboration between physicists from York and the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA, is focusing on understanding, tailoring and tuning the electronic properties of topological insulators - new materials with surfaces that host a quantum state of matter at the nanoscale.

The first draft of the World Wide Web has gone missing, with perhaps one of the only copies of the very first Web site floating around the world's drawers or attics on a floppy disk somewhere.

Cells in the human body do not function in isolation. Living cells rely on communication with their environment -- neighboring cells and the surrounding matrix -- to activate a wide range of cellular functions, including reproduction of new cells, differentiation of stem cells into distinct cell types, cell adhesion, and migration of white blood ... (more)

One is Steve Jobs' 2005 address to Stanford's graduating class, where he famously used three stories to memorably define his life.

Our cookies policy has changed. Review our cookies information for more details.

A physicist claims to have formulated a mathematical theory that explains why the universe works the way it does - and it feels like 'the answer' Eric Weinstein's theory is the first major challenge to the validity of Albert Einstein's Field Equations.

Growing thin films out of nanoparticles in ordered, crystalline sheets, to make anything from microelectronic components to solar cells, would be a boon for materials researchers, but the physics is tricky because particles of that size don't form crystals the way individual atoms do.

A new interpretation of quantum mechanics is proposed according to which precedence, freedom and novelty play central roles.

Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost was born on November 27, 1715 in Germany. He went to college - not immediately, he was a baby when he was born - he went to college to study theology, but soon switched to medicine.

The allure of personalized medicine has made new, more efficient ways of sequencing genes a top research priority.

The 44 notebooks lined up neatly in Ed Stone's office span just half a metre of shelf space.

Another "Star Trek" film just hit the screen - featuring the venerable Starship Enterprise.

The latest twist in the counterfeit war - and make no mistake, it is a war - has been an August 2012, notification posted by DLA DIBBs board that all FSC 5962 product sold directly to DLA would require DNA marking beginning November ... Juki Corporation was founded in December 1938 when approximately 900 machinery manufacturers in Tokyo invested in ... (more)

A team of astronomers led by Jose Dias do Nascimento has found the farthest known solar twin in the Milky Way Galaxy -- CoRoT Sol 1, which has about the same mass and chemical composition as the Sun.

From czarist times to the days of perestroika, the Russian Academy of Sciences was the pillar of the nation's scholarship, boasting the country's best scientists as members.

When a solar flare filled with charged particles erupts from the sun, its magnetic fields sometime break a widely accepted rule of physics.

As described in a paper in Nature , post-doctoral researcher David Patterson, Professor of Physics John Doyle and Dr.

A fried breakfast food popular in Spain provided the inspiration for the development of doughnut-shaped droplets that may provide scientists with a new approach for studying fundamental issues in physics, mathematics and materials.