Students and faculty of UC Santa Barbara’s physics department gathered in Corwin Pavilion for the department’s annual Nobel Prize-focused colloquium on Oct. 14. This year’s event was particularly spec ...

Physicists have been chasing one of the universe’s strangest mysteries—neutrinos, nearly invisible particles that zip through ...

Scientists have created the first real-time 3D simulations of how lasers alter the quantum vacuum. Using cutting-edge computational modeling, scientists from the University of Oxford, in collaboration ...

Recent research reveals that quantum mechanics can supersede the second law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale, ...

Virtual particles exploit the natural fuzziness of the subatomic world, where if these ephemeral particles live briefly enough, they can also briefly borrow their energy from empty space. The haziness ...

"They are the parents of all matter in the universe today, including our own bodies, while the knots can be thought of as our ...