Quantum physics has a reputation for needing exotic hardware, from liquid-helium-cooled qubits to sprawling AI clusters, just to crunch through basic simulations. Now a new “physics shortcut” is ...

Physicists working on the MIGDAL experiment reported the first direct evidence of the Migdal effect in January 2026, ...

The water bottle flipping craze, in which a partially filled bottle of water is flipped and magically lands upright, swept the globe a couple of years ago. Now a group of Dutch scientists has designed ...

Physics Girl and Rodney Mullen explain the unusual physics behind skateboard tricks. Skateboarding legend Rodney Mullen teams up with Physics Girl to explain the unusual physics behind skateboard ...

The study of graphene was starting to go out of style, but new experiments with sheets of the ultrathin material revealed there was much left to learn. By Kenneth Chang In the universe of office ...

Researchers from India and Australia merge historical physics with modern materials engineering to create durable sodium batteries that could help meet clean energy goals. Roughly 270 years ago, Dr ...

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An excess of X-rays is bad for your health – which is why radiographers step out of the room before they zap you. Now a ghostly physics trick could reduce the dose needed for a clear image, because it ...