Physicists have found a clever way to detect the elusive Unruh effect without extreme accelerations. By using atoms that emit light cooperatively between mirrors, acceleration subtly shifts when a ...

People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, ...

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

At PING, testing isn’t what happens after design. Testing is design.Long before motion-capture rigs, ENZO, FOCAL, or even a ...

This experiment uses a warm liquid on ice to explore how heat actually moves and dissipates. Instead of melting evenly, the ice reacts in unexpected patterns that reveal strange thermal behavior. It’s ...

Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

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

Let’s start with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF)—arguably the largest, most ...

Researchers at HZDR have partnered with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, and the Institute of ...

Four UC Nobel laureates on what they discovered here, why it matters, and why their world-changing work could only have ...