In 1887, one of the most important experiments in the history of physics took place. American scientists Michelson and Morley ...

More than 200 years ago, physicist Thomas Young amazed the scientific world when he showed that light behaves like both a ...

Since then, countless experiments have confirmed that light always travels at the same speed in a vacuum — about 300,000 ...

Physicists have developed a novel approach to solving one of the most persistent problems in theoretical physics: uniting gravity with the quantum world. In a recent paper published in the journal ...

UCSB physicists John Martinis and Michel Devoret have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. They were recognized for work that, according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, “revealed ...

A century ago, science went quantum. To celebrate, physicists are throwing a global, year-long party. In 1925, quantum mechanics, the scientific theory that describes the unintuitive rules of physics ...

One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. In the 1990s, long before winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his prediction of black holes, ...

Wolfgang Pauli was in something of an agitated state. The Austrian scientist found himself in Rome in 1931, in a seething mixture of nervousness, excitement, and consternation. Only 31, he was already ...

New research offers an intriguing variation on the famous experiment, which proved light behaves as both a particle and a wave. reading time 2 minutes A team of physicists has recreated a classic ...

More than 200 years ago, the English scientist Thomas Young carried out a famous test known as the “double-slit experiment.” He shone a beam of light at a screen with two slits in it, and observed ...