Physics alumna Erin McCarthy ’23, right, was lead author on a study published in Physical Review Letters which uncovered mechanisms that cause particles to sort spontaneously into different ...

It doesn’t change my overall opinion of the book, though. This volume will work for everyone from a high-school student (just ignore the few equations, although they aren’t that difficult anyway) to ...

What is quantum physics? Put simply, it’s the physics that explains how everything works: the best description we have of the nature of the particles that make up matter and the forces with which they ...

Wrapping your head around quantum physics is tricky, no matter how well-educated you are -- if it were easy, there wouldn't be problems making quantum computers. However, researchers at the ...

The Winter Olympics are drawing to a close, which is a chance to reflect on how winter sports demonstrate both the macroscopic physics we understand very well, and the microscopic physics that we ...

We often think of artificial intelligence as a tool for automating certain tasks. But it turns out that the technology could also help give us a better understanding of ourselves. At least that's ...