The longest gamma-ray burst ever recorded did not behave like a quick cosmic flash. Instead, it burned across the sky for ...

Physicist Brian Cox has rarely been shy about his enthusiasm for big, difficult ideas, but his reaction to a recent quantum ...

NASA has selected a heliophysics mission to move into the next phase of development amid broader concerns about the state of the field.

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are helping reshape how scientists study the sun. The ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa and the University of Chicago have developed a framework that could yield more accurate ...

Physics World is delighted to announce its Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year for 2025, which includes research in astronomy, antimatter, atomic and molecular physics and more. The Top Ten is the ...

Olalla, from the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Seville, has described the direct link between ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through ...

In the end, the Universe becomes a place where gravity and quantum physics slowly turn all mass into faint streams of particles.

NTT Research, Inc ., a division of NTT (TY;9432), today announced that members of its Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab, in ...