This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features William Phillips, who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light.

A team of researchers led by a physics graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst made the surprising ...

Could a reactionless, gravity-defying propulsion system actually work? A former NASA engineer says yes, but scientists are skeptical.

But the development of the uniquely shaped piece of lumber — it looks more like a bowling pin than a traditional bat, with a ...

They look like baseball bats morphing into bowling pins, their ends flaring into an aggressive bulge that suddenly tapers. So ...

After the Great Pyramids of Giza were finished, the next pharaoh was interred in an unusual and distant structure.

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

Quantum physics is the study of matter and energy at its most fundamental level. A central tenet of quantum physics is that energy comes in indivisible packets called quanta. Quanta behave very ...

Stephen Graham shares touching tribute to Robert De Niro: ‘Thank you from the bottom of my heart’ Iron Maiden’s plane has been cut into pieces and put up for sale NASA's stuck astronauts are ...

We tied 7th in the UK for the quality of our Physics research environment ... If anybody within MPS would like to discuss these issues, we encourage you to contact our inclusivity committee or the ...

Netflix has released the trailer and first-look images for the fifth and final season of its psychological thriller series “You.” The official synopsis for Season 5 reads, “In the epic fifth ...

If you took introductory physics, you learned about the “fundamental forces.” It goes something like this: All interactions are the result of one or more of five basic forces: strong nuclear ...