The Franklin Institute announced Nov. 11 that it is awarding the 2026 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, one of the nation’s ...

Scientists learned that reading a quantum clock requires orders of magnitude more energy than running it. This surprising imbalance reveals that observation itself shapes the flow and thermodynamics ...

Artificial intelligence is learning without understanding meaning. A global data revolution has stripped away essential ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

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 ...

Superconductors are like the express trains in a metro system. Any electricity that "boards" a superconducting material can ...

Far above Earth, scientists are using quantum sensors to listen for the faintest whispers of unseen forces that may weave through the universe. Scientists are constantly searching for new clues about ...

Two recent studies published in Nature and Science Advances explored quantum approaches that could improve the precision of ...

A century on, physicists still disagree on what quantum mechanics actually means. Nature recently surveyed more than a ...

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, scientists have recreated "cosmic fireballs" here on Earth in a particle accelerator.The ...