In 2025, physicists spotted a paradigm-shifting new black hole, doubled down on weakening dark energy, and discovered that the Earth’s deep interior may be more connected than previously thought, ...

In CERN’s high-temperature superconducting laboratory near Geneva, a wiring machine combines dozens of strands of niobium–tin ...

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In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have achieved the first experimental observation of a fragile-to-strong transition in deeply supercooled water, resolving a scientific puzzle ...

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

For many of us, advanced physics can be tough to understand to begin with, which makes it all the more impressive whenever someone earns a Nobel Prize for advancing the field even further. The latest ...

Three physicists, including a pair of University of California, Santa Barbara professors, have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for essentially bridging the gap between the invisible ...

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and elsewhere have observed a nearby pulsar known as PSR J2129+4119.

In their research, Hasenfratz, Catterall, and Butt used renormalization group (RG) theory to study the more complex phase ...