John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis were recognized for work that made behaviors of the subatomic realm ...

Nobel Prize in physics goes to trio for research on the weird world of sub-atomic quantum tunneling that advances the power ...

The discovery honored with this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics takes phenomena observed in the subatomic world—the ...

Researchers from the University of Arizona, working with an international team, have captured and controlled quantum ...

This experiment shows how liquids naturally follow paths of least resistance, revealing the fascinating physics of flow, surface tension, and gravity in action.

"With this, we can detect very tiny changes in both position and momentum at once, beyond the limit of any classical sensor," ...

Heat has always been something we thought we understood. From baking bread to running engines, the idea seemed simple: heat ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...

Scientists at TU Wien (Vienna) report that an exotic quantum phenomenon appears under conditions where it would not normally ...

As a science reporter for the New York Times, Katrina Miller writes about the universe and how the pursuit of understanding ...

G eorge Smoot, who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in the "discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation” in 2006, has died at home at the age ...

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...