The more you learn about the world around you, the less anything makes sense. But if you keep digging, well beyond the point at which most people would walk away from the whole endeavor, you just ...

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What comes to mind when you hear the term “theoretical physics?” Probably Einstein, Hawking, and Hideki Yukawa. Or, maybe you think of Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa and Yoichiro Nambu, the trio ...

At CERN’s Large Hadron Collider on the edge of Geneva, scientists have reported a surprising twist in the behavior of matter. Collisions inside the 27‑kilometer ring have produced what researchers ...

A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, ...

Quantum computers have performed the full slate of tricks needed for robust computation. And it all came down to a little magic. In a pair of papers submitted June 17 at arXiv.org, researchers ...

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero tells Hamish Johnston about what happened next after his lab created magic-angle graphene and won the Physics World Breakthrough of the Year award in 2018 Latest twist Pablo ...