Vorticity, a measure of the local rotation or swirling motion in a fluid, has long been studied by physicists and ...

This week marks the centenary of the French physicist Louis de Broglie's doctoral thesis, which later earned him a Nobel ...

PsiQuantum has ambitious goals to build a useful quantum machine by late 2027 — and has raised more than US$1 billion to do it. The US National Ignition Facility is the only laboratory where a ...

Physicists have long wondered why particles can only have an electric charge of +1, -2 or any whole number. Now we ...

Eddy Keming Chen, associate professor of philosophy at the University of California San Diego School of Arts and Humanities, ...

Statistical physics is a branch of physics that uses probability theory and statistics to solve physical problems that usually involve systems composed of a large number of units. Its main purpose ...

Scientists are harnessing the alternative physics of the quantum realm to create computers of unprecedented power, ...

Calculations intended to feel out the interactions between light and the material that produces it may inadvertently describe ...

Nature Communications is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Nature Publishing Group since 2010. The editor in chief is Lesley Anson. It is multidisciplinary in scope, with ...

The nature of dark matter has puzzled astronomers since discovering that 85% of the universe's matter is invisible through ...

A team of researchers led by Anna-Karin Gustavsson at Rice University has developed an innovative imaging platform that ...

Researchers have defined the precise shape of a single photon, a huge leap forward in quantum physics and material science.