A leader in the defense research and development community who joined APL in 1983, he currently heads the lab's Air and ...

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Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory for plasma physics and nuclear fusion science located on Princeton University's Forrestal ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics ...

On the Swiss–French border, at the headquarters of the European laboratory CERN, a battle is under way for the future of particle physics. CERN’s leaders want to build the biggest machine on ...

A new quantum algorithm accelerates the simulation of coupled oscillator dynamics. Quantum computers have the potential to ...

Science is filled with tools that once seemed revolutionary and are now just part of the research tool kit. That time may have come for artificial intelligence ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features William Phillips, who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light.

We may earn an affiliate commission from links. “Lab-grown diamonds are the great equalizer,” says Jean Dousset, the great-grandson of Louis Cartier who pivoted his namesake label to ...

With new technologies and sustainable practices, lab-grown diamonds are becoming an increasingly popular choice among jewelry shoppers. They’re chemically and physically identical to earth-mined ...

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CERN shares visualisations of plans to build the next 91km Large Hadron Collider under France and Switzerland. Photo shows New Year's Weather: Dark grey storm clouds over a green forested area ...