In every scientific discovery in the movies, a scientist observes something unexpected, scratches the side of his or her forehead and says "hmmmmm." In just such a moment in real life, scientists from ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used to discover new materials, but conventional data-driven approaches ...

For the first time, researchers have developed a way to create chilled molecules containing the radioactive element radium. The resulting laboratory concoctions, generated in part through steps ...

Supercomputers step particles through a virtual world to give a history of their movement. The results are compared to physical experiments. High energy physicists run on a treadmill that keeps ...

The LUX-ZEPLIN detector is breaking new ground in the hunt for dark matter, setting unprecedented limits on WIMP particles. Its results not only narrow the possibilities for dark matter but also open ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists – a Briton, a Frenchman and an American – for their ground-breaking discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics.John Clarke, ...

Nobel Prize winners in Physics 2025 - 1901: The Nobel Prize in Physics is the highest honor in science, given to people who have made amazing discoveries that change our understanding of the universe.

What if the next new theory of the universe didn’t come from a human mind, but from an artificial one? In a development that has left the scientific community both awestruck and unsettled, artificial ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. Retired UC Berkeley physics professor John Clarke and two former colleagues were awarded the Nobel Prize ...

Discoveries so strange they seemed to break the laws of physics outright ...