Physics

Why trusting physics, not politics, once kept Iran in check - opinion

We backed the Iran nuclear deal not out of trust in Tehran but trust in physics. A decade later, Iran’s program is stronger, and the cost of abandoning diplomacy is clear.

People protest against the nuclear deal reached with Iran before U.S. Vice President Joe Biden meets with Jewish community leaders at the David Posnack Jewish Community Center to discuss the deal on Sept. 3, 2015 in Davie, Florida.
A woman sleeping with her shoes on

Physicists pinpoint mechanism behind familiar basketball shoes squeak

A MEMBER of a neo-Nazi party gives a salute outside a speech by Richard Spencer on the campus of Michigan State University on March 5

Schrödinger’s Jew: How antisemitism is more absurd than quantum mechanics - opinion

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A revolution in the skies: How a curved wing saves airlines millions of dollars


Reaffirmed anomaly could lead to innovations in standard model physics

Despite the reaffirmation, many other neutrino experiments have mysteriously failed to replicate the anomalous results.

One of the four horizontal planes of Baksan Underground Scintillation Telescope (BUST), Baksan Neutrino Observatory, Caucasus mountains, Russia

New time crystal experiment may open new horizons in quantum computing

A time crystal is a phase of matter which repeats in time, similar to how a regular crystal's structure repeats in space.

 Single crystal of a mixture of 95% aluminum potassium sulfate and 5% chromium potassium sulfate. Growing period - 3 months in home conditions.

NASA: Universe expansion is 'weird,' scientists unsure why - study

Why is the universe expanding so quickly? Scientists don't know, and there's a chance that it might be that there are physics at work that we have yet to understand.

 The universe is filled with mysteries that scientists struggle to answer (Illustrative).

World's most powerful heavy-ion accelerator to open in Michigan

A community of 1,600 scientists from around the world will use the accelerator to study how the universe formed.

 The FRIB cryogenic plant made its first liquid helium at 4.5 kelvin (K) on 16 November 2017

CERN's Large Hadron Collider returns to service after 3-year hiatus

Four years of physics-data taking are set to begin this summer at the LHC, marking the third run of the collider.

A general view of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment is seen during a media visit at the Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in the French village of Saint-Genis-Pouilly near Geneva in Switzerland, July 23, 2014

A tiny change in a particle's mass could shake the world of physics

A new precise measurement of the W boson's mass creates a huge buzz as it could force a new approach to the Standard Model of particle physics.

 Fermi Lab's main accelerator tunnel, showing original ring (above) and Tevatron's superconducting magnets (below)

Hebrew University discovers new magnetic phenomenon - study

The discovery ultimately relied on images produced by a new type of magnetic microscopy developed in Israel, which can measure the magnetic field of a single electron

 Illustration of edge magnetism discovered using nanoscale magnetic microscopy

New simulation is largest, most detailed model of early universe

Named after the Etruscan goddess of the dawn, the "Thesan" model will help scientists study the complex environment of the young universe.

 Evolution of simulated properties in the Thesan model

Scientists discover new solar waves that don't fit with current theories

The newly discovered waves move three times faster than current theories predict.

 A coronal mass ejection from the Sun imaged on August 31, 2012

For the first time, time crystals survive outside the lab

University of California researchers use light to allow recently-discovered "time crystals" to be more stable.

 Single crystal of a mixture of 95% aluminum potassium sulfate and 5% chromium potassium sulfate. Growing period - 3 months in home conditions.