Physics can feel inscrutable to students; this lesson helps them understand a graphing problem by analyzing their own ...

Stockholm — John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for research on seemingly obscure quantum tunneling that is advancing digital technology.

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the ...

The speed of light isn’t just a number — it’s the foundation of reality. But new research into how light behaves across space ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden ‒ U.S.-based scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for "experiments that revealed quantum physics in action," paving the way ...

STOCKHOLM — John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for research into quantum mechanical tunneling. Clarke conducted his research at the ...

There are few sports more exciting than playoff baseball, but behind every pitch there is also a fascinating story of physics ...

In the 1920s, when quantum mechanics was young, physicists Jane Dewey and Laura Chalk performed some of the first experimental tests of the theory, based on a phenomenon called the Stark effect. Later ...

STOCKHOLM — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning. "This year's two Nobel ...

Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later, her insights continue to shape physics. In the fall of 1915, the foundations of physics ...

What would it really take to travel at or beyond the speed of light? In this video, we break down the hard physics Hollywood skips: why nothing with mass can reach light speed, how energy needs ...