The Nobel Prize in physics goes to three scientists, including one at Ohio State, for giving us a glimpse of electrons in an attosecond -- one-billionth of one-billionth of a second.

A trio of scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics for managing to do something that had always eluded humankind: Spotting electrons zipping around in an atom.

The Fall 2023 Physics Recognition Ceremony will be held on Thursday, December 21, 2023 at 1:00 pm in Duane Physics, Room G1B20. Graduating students in physics and engineering physics are invited to ...

As a high school student, Morgan Knuesel was counseled to avoid a class in physics, because it was too ‘hard’; this week, she graduates with a degree in physics, summa cum laude, and is the 2023 ...

Here are 11 major updates that happened this year in the field of particle physics. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The past year ...

The James Webb Space Telescope, now in year two of science operations, continues to return stunning images of the cosmos, and the trickle of science results from 2022 has now swelled into a torrent.

The physics of how gentoo penguins can swim speedily underwater A variable called the "angle of thrust" explains why finned wings generate so much thrust.

(Courtesy: Department of Physics/University of Basel/Scixel) One of the triumphs of 20th-century physics is the BCS theory of superconductivity, which was developed in the 1950s to explain why some ...

The pandemic inspired physicists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to investigate the physics of cooking pasta—first conducting home experiments, then repeating those with ...

A University of Portsmouth physicist has explored whether a new law of physics could support the much-debated theory that we are simply characters in an advanced virtual world.

The committee, formally known as the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel, or P5, was tasked by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation to lay out a road map for ...

The peculiar wobble of a subatomic particle called a muon in a U.S. laboratory experiment is making scientists increasingly suspect they are missing something in their understanding of physics ...