A team led by UNIGE has shown that the most mysterious component of our Universe follows the laws of classical physics, though some doubts still remain. Does dark matter obey the same physical laws as ...

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

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the ...

Scientists at CERN have observed a rare phenomenon where a single top quark formed alongside W and Z bosons for the first ...

The experiment at CERN produced pairs of electron and positron beams, propagating into an ambient plasma. The international ...

With a cube-based design that fits into a standard rack mount, the ICE-Q platform delivers the reliability and scalability needed to exploit quantum systems in real-world operating environments ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

Silver iodide is the material of choice to make clouds release rain and snow. For decades, its remarkable ability to trigger precipitation has been used in cloud seeding to prevent hail damage and ...

If you were able to visualize the passage of time, it may appear as looping ribbons of color, these fragments ribboning and ...

Twin black hole collisions detected in 2024 have provided the sharpest-ever test of Einstein’s theory while revealing new details about how black holes form and spin.

The first cloud seeding trial in Delhi took place during the monsoon months of 1957 — between June and September — because ...

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