Ice cubes float in water because they’re less dense than the liquid. But a newfound type of ice has a density nearly equal to what’s in your water glass, researchers report in the Feb. 3 Science. If ...

Tenets of quantum mechanics and special relativity, among other theoretical ideas, lead inexorably to string theory.

Scientists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider may be seeing the strongest hints yet of physics beyond the Standard Model — the decades-old theory that explains the fundamental particles and ...

A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I have found in a new research project. The way that intense X-rays are ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called "Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?" Forty-five years later, ...

On October 8, 2024, the field of physics was plunged into controversy. That day, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for discoveries not involving black holes, cosmology, or strange new subatomic ...

Physicists may have uncovered a surprising new clue that string theory—the idea that the universe is built from unimaginably tiny vibrating strings—could be more than just a mathematical fantasy.

We use different devices to measure temperature. The science behind them, and concepts such as absolute zero and cold atoms, ...

The Ithaca Physics Bus took a pit stop at Tioughnioga River Academy this afternoon, bringing students a one-of-a-kind, ...

WHITNEY POINT, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – Local students had an exciting day of learning, as a traveling science experiment made a pit stop at their school. Tioughnioga Riverside Academy 4th and 5th graders ...