For years, the Prairie Pothole Region has bothered me in a very specific way. On a map, it looks like a normal landscape: ...

• Physics departments can support transfer students in several ways, such as creating transfer programs with local two-year colleges and ensuring transfer students meet with an advisor during their ...

Estimating things that exist is generally easy, but when it comes to estimating things that do not exist, it's more difficult. This is something physicists from Poland and the UK are well aware of. To ...

Estimating things that exist is generally easy, but when it comes to estimating things that do not exist, it’s more difficult. This is something physicists from Poland and the UK are well aware of. To ...

The physics behind shoe squeaks is surprisingly complex. Phil Roeder via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0. As illustrated by the High School Musical song “Get’cha Head in the ...

Adiabatic quantum computing An example problem represented by an energy landscape. Each point on the landscape represents a candidate solution. The deepest valley represents the actual solution with ...

A group of scientists has created a quantum material where electricity can flow without losing energy as heat. Until now, this was only seen in ...

A pair of identical particles swapping places sounds like a small move. In quantum physics, it is a defining one.

Consider the humble rechargeable battery: Many people start their day by unplugging their phone from a charger to check the weather or commute to work, or throw on their favorite podcast. They'll end ...

I like Claude. It is one of the more fun AI Chatbots I have used. It can write your code, edit your novel, summarise a 200 ...

"The polarized light of the cosmic microwave background is sensitive to new physics that violates parity symmetry," the team ...

A physicist proposes that consciousness is the fundamental basis of reality, with matter and spacetime emerging from it.