Physics is the study of the underlying laws and mechanisms explaining how the universe works. Most of what we do in daily life is based on a principle or law of physics—dealing with forces, motion, ...

Ask a bunch of physicists to explain a quantum experiment and you’re unlikely to get the same description twice. Everyone agrees that the mathematical framework of quantum mechanics is peerless at ...

Christopher Ferrie receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is a co-founder of quantum startup Eigensystems. In June, an IBM computing executive claimed quantum computers were ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to two scientists for developing the methods which lay the foundations for today's powerful AI. John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton received the ...

Scientists John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning within artificial neural networks, the award-giving body ...

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

Associate physics professor Bogdan Andrei Bernevig and former University professor Arthur McDonald were recognized for their work in physics on Sunday – Bernevig was awarded the 2016 New Horizons in ...

Foundational physics created the modern world. Ubiquitous technologies like GPS, MRIs, and cell phones all began humbly as formulae on chalkboards, born from the work of scientists and mathematicians ...