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?

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...

From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are ...

For numerous fundamental processes of life, the formation of certain protein patterns is essential. Protein pattern formation ...

Quantum teleportation has moved from science fiction into laboratory reality, but not in the way popular culture imagines.

UC Santa Barbara Physicist Boris Shraiman has led an intellectually peripatetic career, to great satisfaction, success and acclaim.

By establishing a larger principle for how things shatter, certain energy-intensive tasks could gain an advantage.

Before Einstein, before Bohr, there was a Jesuit priest with a telescope and a startlingly modern vision of the universe.

There's a certain logic to how human civilization operates. Some say it's predetermined by physics, others point to ...

An elegant new equation identifies the surprisingly orderly, mathematical way in which things break, shatter, and fall apart.

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists have demonstrated that black holes satisfy the third law of ...