On this day in 1990, physicist Tim Berners-Lee circulated a memo for a relatively modest information sharing proposal that ...

Transient cosmic ray phenomena produced by a solar superstorm can be linked to variations in atmospheric electricity.

Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime in motion to the period of newborn atomic nuclei known as primordial ...

In the home, the lab and the factory, electric fields control technologies such as Kindle displays, medical diagnostic tests ...

By levitating a single particle of silica in a vacuum and blasting it with synthetic temperatures higher than 10 million ...

The search for quantum gravity is the next big step in physics, as researchers seek to unify the physics of the very small ...

CERN and its partners in Europe and worldwide are currently working to identify the next collider that would succeed the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) after the latter reaches the end of operations in ...

The US High Energy Physics Advisory Panel has been dissolved for reasons of politics, not efficiency, says Robert P Crease ...

The geometry of space, where physical laws unfold, may also hold answers to some of the deepest questions in fundamental ...

The study seeks to explain the presence of dark matter using a WED model. The scientists studied fermion masses, which they ...

This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley), Michel H. Devoret (Yale University and University of California, Santa Barbara) and John M.

The key is to embed a radium atom in a molecule, which contains and intensifies the activities of its electrons, explains ...