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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are two theories that have essentially revolutionized our understanding of physics in the 20th century—quantum mechanics and general relativity. Quantum mechanics attempts to explain the ...

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 ...

Three scientists have won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on understanding “Earth’s place in the cosmos” and the evolution of the universe.