This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to ...

The idea is still new and requires a lot of assumptions in its calculations to make it work. Over the years, experimental results have been mixed.

The Standard Model is the modern physical understanding of three of the four forces of nature: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force.

Rahul Rao is a former intern and contributing science writer for Popular Science since early 2021. He covers physics, space, technology, and their intersections with each other and everything else.

Physics Do we live in a hologram? Why physics is still mesmerised by this idea The holographic universe theory still grips physicists 25 years since it was first published. Here’s what it is all ...

The particle physics department (DPNC) studies the fundamental structures and laws of nature from the largest dimensions in the Universe to the smallest of the microcosm by using three complementary ...

Two pioneers in artificial intelligence, John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their foundational contributions to machine learning, which is ...

A University of Portsmouth physicist has explored whether a new law of physics could support the much-debated theory that we are simply characters in an advanced virtual world.

Although the basic idea of quantum physics dates back to the earliest years of the twentieth century, it wasn’t until 1925, on the German island of Heligoland, that Werner Heisenberg had the ...