The poet Blake wrote that you can see a world in a grain of sand. But even better, you can see a universe in an atom!

Having good neighbors can be very valuable—even in the atomic world. A team of Amsterdam physicists was able to determine an ...

Researchers from the University of Southern California, University of Massachusetts, University of California Los Angeles, Syracuse University, and the Air Force Research Laboratory developed ...

A mission to search for the origin-of-life on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, will be aided by University of Otago – Ōtākou ...

Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.

Modeling the effects of molecular handedness on electron spin challenges fundamental assumptions in physics, including Onsager reciprocity and time reversal symmetry.

Find out just how fast this revolutionary design can spin! I measure the maximum rotational speed and explain the physics ...

In a Physical Review Letters study, the HOLMES collaboration has achieved the most stringent upper bound on the effective ...

What occurs when electrons escape from a solid material? Though it may appear straightforward, this process has long resisted ...

Every cell of the deadly Plasmodium falciparum parasite, the organism that causes malaria, contains a tiny compartment full of microscopic iron crystals. As long as the parasite is alive, the crystals ...