Recent breakthroughs at U.S. fusion labs, along with new public-private partnerships, are bringing us closer than ever to ...

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer ...

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that ...

High horsepower combined with significant vehicle weight creates massive kinetic energy, especially at speed. This breakdown ...

Exotic hypothetical particles known as axions could potentially be produced inside a nuclear reactor, something The Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon Cooper thought was impossible.

And then it got me.” A handful of decades and an MIT physics doctorate later, Tan is the chief science officer (CSO) of ...

The constant, energy-driven motion inside living cells may generate electricity in a way no one fully recognized before.

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

These universal truths form the shared foundation upon which a great deal of rigorous and robust merit-based inquiry is ...

From rewriting history to manipulating the multiverse, these artifacts are capable of reshaping existence itself.

Create a Physics World account to get access to all available digital issues of the monthly magazine. Your Physics World ...