Because there’s no current in the insulating layer, charge is trapped inside that layer, and the classical laws of physics say that voltage should also measure zero. Just as a tennis ball thrown at a ...

Physicists have recently made a groundbreaking discovery in the realm of quantum materials with the identification of a ...

Traditionally, science has been the counterargument for the existence of God. But mathematicians Olivier Bonnassies and ...

Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen Ning Yang, a key figure in modern physics, has died in Beijing at 103.

Yang, one of the world's most influential scientists, earned global recognition for his work in theoretical physics.

Scientists figured out that the universe is billions of years old — after years of reading ancient rocks and dying stars, and ...

A consensus is emerging that the dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe.

Even after centuries of study, water continues to surprise us. The same molecule that sustains life on Earth can, under the ...

Cambridge Alumni John Clarke jointly awarded Nobel Prize in physics for discovery in macroscopic quantum mechanical tunelling ...

New simulations tilt the scales for competing theories about excess gamma ray light at the center of the galaxy ...

Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have proven that the Carnot principle, a central law of thermodynamics, does ...