Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

U.S. science always suffers during government shutdowns. Funding lapses send government scientists home without pay. Federal agencies suspend new grant opportunities, place expert review panels on ...

A University of Michigan-led team has discovered quantum oscillations within an insulator’s bulk, overturning conventional understanding of material behavior and hinting at a mysterious “new duality” ...

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson is set to announce that all children should be taught Biology, Physics and Chemistry and be examined on them separately again.

Learn more about the Society of Physics Students with SPS Director and AIP Student Engagement Officer Alejandro de la Puente ...

Ramanujan's formula, derived by the mathematician in 1914 when quantum theory hadn't been formulated fully, provides a faster ...

The IAEA has published “Radiation Oncology Physics: a handbook for teachers and students” aiming at providing the minimum level of knowledge expected of a medical physicist specializing in radiation ...

As someone who studies materials, Lu Li knows people want to hear about the exciting new applications and technologies his ...

Aalo has completed Preliminary Design Review for its Aalo-X sodium-cooled reactor, advancing toward DOE-backed criticality ...

Writing about a son’s vigil at his dying father’s bedside, Georgi Gospodinov examines what parents and their children reap and sow.

Japanese physicists have revived Kelvin’s old idea of cosmic knots, showing how these tangled fields might explain why matter ...

A fundamental link between two counterintuitive phenomena in spin glasses—reentrance and temperature chaos—has been mathematically proven for the first time. By extending the Edwards–Anderson model to ...