For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from ...

When two black holes merge or two neutron stars collide, gravitational waves can be generated. They spread at the speed of ...

OpenAI’s new FrontierScience benchmark shows AI advancing in physics, chemistry, and biology—and exposes the challenge of ...

We explore how the kilogram is defined using a diy watt balance built from simple components. The experiment connects ...

Physics World is delighted to announce its Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year for 2025, which includes research in astronomy, antimatter, atomic and molecular physics and more. The Top Ten is the ...

Titas Chanda and Sthitadhi Roy receive the 2025 ICTP Prize for groundbreaking contributions to quantum many-body systems and ...

"Ultimately, this work may help scientists better predict the impact of space weather across the solar system on longer ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

Researchers from TUM, working at CERN, have made a groundbreaking discovery that reveals how deuterons are formed. Another long-standing question in particle physics has been answered. Scientists ...

Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have re-engineered the popular Lattice-Boltzmann Method (LBM) for simulating ...

Researchers at Peking University and collaborators have revealed evidence of Mott insulator with thermally induced melting ...