The ability to conduct heat is one of the most fundamental properties of matter, crucial for engineering applications. Scientists know well how conventional materials, such as metals and insulators, ...

Emory University physicist Connie Roth upended her field of fundamental science with a discovery that polymer blends — an invention ...

Some of the most fascinating people that you meet at American Physical Society meetings are not actually physicists, and Bruce Rosenbaum is no exception. Based in Massachusetts, Rosenbaum is a maker ...

If Andrea Ghez had listened to her critics, one of the galaxy’s greatest mysteries might yet remain unsolved. The UCLA astronomer won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics for proving the existence of a ...

Last year, an enormous map of the cosmos hinted that the engine driving cosmic expansion might be sputtering. Now physicists ...

Germany’s members of the Euclid Consortium have played a significant role in producing the mission’s first large set of survey data which the European Space Agency has just released. The data includes ...

Scientists know well how conventional materials conduct heat. However, things are not as straightforward under extreme ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new stars are born. Astronomers ...

Students Advocate for Solar Panel System to Cut Energy Costs at NDHS A group of physics students from Northeast Dubois High School (NDHS) proposed implementing solar energy at their school, aiming to ...

Physicists at Washington University have forged ahead in the field of quantum mechanics by creating a new phase of matter ...

Scientists have unlocked a new way to control ionization, the process where atoms lose electrons, using specially designed ...

Scientists are investigating how structures made from several layers of graphene stack up in terms of their fundamental physics and their potential as reconfigurable semiconductors for advanced ...