Students and faculty of UC Santa Barbara’s physics department gathered in Corwin Pavilion for the department’s annual Nobel Prize-focused colloquium on Oct. 14. This year’s event was particularly spec ...

Google scientists say they have taken a major step toward solving one of the hardest problems in computing. Their latest experiment, they argue, provides the most ...

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Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as ...

Los Angeles tech firm Quilter, which uses physics-driven AI for fully autonomous printed circuit board (PCB) layout, raised ...

This balance—neurons as the silent bee workers, waves as the queen’s rhythm holding the hive together—suggests consciousness ...

DARPA launches a new initiative exploring altermagnetism, physics’ strangest frontier, to power next-gen defense technologies ...

The NSF awarded BC physics researchers Qiong Ma and Fazel Tafti a $1 million grant to study a new class of quantum materials ...

Detecting dark matter—the mysterious substance that holds galaxies together—is one of the greatest unsolved problems in ...

The world’s first all-optical radio runs on laser light, not electricity, opening new possibilities for stealth sensors and satellite applications.

UCSB physics professor emeritus John Martinis and UCSB physics professor Michel Devoret were awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize.