Addressing a controversy first raised around 1910, two physicists have performed experiments with the aid of an engineer that validate anew the special theory of relativity’s limitations on the speed ...

The Pauli exclusion principle is a cornerstone of the Standard Model of particle physics and is essential for the structure ...

Condensed-matter physics and materials science have a silo problem. Although researchers in these fields have access to vast amounts of data – from experimental records of crystal structures and ...

Sam Baron receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The Matter of Everything tells the history of physics through experiments. Any book about the history of science for a general audience ...

New home: the Muon g-2 ring sits in its detector hall at Fermilab, where it studies precession of muons. (Courtesy: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab) A long-standing discrepancy between the predicted and measured ...

trace their origins to the fundamental fuzziness of the subatomic world. Inflation created tiny lumps in the distribution of matter and tiny variations in the temperature of the cosmic microwave ...

What makes something quantum? This question has kept a small but dedicated fraction of the world's population—most of them ...

Bubbles are a cornerstone of many environmental and industrial processes such as the development of pharmaceutical products and mitigating the environmental impact of greenhouse gases. From algae ...