21 July 2023
Newton’s first law of motion says that particles move in straight lines unless influenced by a force but a new experiment shows that the quantum version of that assumption fails for quantum particles of light
19 July 2023
It is hard to focus on getting academic work done when there is increasing hostility in the US to people of colour. This is why being awarded tenure matters, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
15 July 2023
A researcher won a bet by performing an experiment a colleague said wouldn't work. The result was the largest quasicrystal ever made
21 June 2023
I can take it as a given that people have an intuition for the meaning of mass, but traditional explanations can feel unsatisfactory. Even the standard model doesn't give us all the answers, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
10 June 2023
An analysis of over 800 hours of footage from busy pedestrian areas in Japan found that pairs of people that share stronger social bonds are less likely to physically bump into other people walking
10 June 2023
An equation developed to describe the motion of undulating animals and robots looks like the famous Schrödinger equation from quantum mechanics
9 June 2023
A drop of very cold liquid helium can be made to float for an indefinitely long time using strong magnets and quantum effects
24 May 2023
Despite the obvious caveats, physicists are right to use fluids and other physical analogues to search for fresh insights about extreme cosmic phenomena, from black holes to the big bang
24 May 2023
As a theoretical cosmologist, you would think I'd welcome the chance to answer these questions - but it isn't clear this is an inquiry that physics can answer, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
27 April 2023
California blackworms gather together in tangled-up balls to preserve moisture during droughts, but they can rapidly separate when they perceive danger thanks to a special helical wriggle
