What changes when a warp drive no longer depends on matter that physics has never actually seen? For three decades, ...

Neutrinos are extremely lightweight and electrically neutral particles that rarely interact with ordinary matter. Due to ...

UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...

The British-American theoretical physicist Anthony Leggett died on 8 March at the age of 87. Leggett shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics with Alexei Abrikosov and Vitaly Ginzburg for their ...

Dark matter remains one of the most compelling enigmas in modern cosmology. Although it does not emit light, its gravitational influence is essential for the formation and evolution of cosmic ...

Systems governed by chemistry and physics, not biology, can behave in surprisingly lifelike ways, as Giorgio Volpe, Rob ...

The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than ...

Plasma has long been treated as an exotic laboratory curiosity, yet a new world-first result is forcing scientists to look at this fiery state of matter as something far more familiar. By uncovering a ...

Superconductors are among the most puzzling materials in physics. They conduct electricity with zero resistance, but only ...

Physicists discovered strange supersolids, constructed new kinds of superconductors, and continued to make the case that the cosmos is far weirder than anyone suspected. Will 2024 be remembered as a ...

A teenage PhD defense is rare enough to feel unreal. Laurent Simons’ sprint through higher education offers a striking look ...