From stirring milk in your coffee to fearsome typhoon gales, rotating turbulent flows are everywhere. Yet, these spinning currents are as scientifically complex as they are banal. Describing, modeling ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

A rediscovered formula is changing how we understand the hidden journeys of airborne particles. Researchers at the University of Warwick have created a straightforward new way to predict how ...

Math and physics explain the anguish of a golf ball that zings around the rim of the hole instead of falling in.

Kolmogorov’s universal framework for small-scale turbulence, which describes how energy propagates and dissipates through ...

Researchers at TU Wien have developed numerical models to simulate the movement of fluids in porous materials.

Google Quantum AI’s new research revisits a 1960s idea for unforgeable “quantum money,” exploring how physics, not code, ...

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