Seventy years ago, in Osmond Laboratory on Penn State's University Park campus, Erwin W. Müller, Evan Pugh Research Professor ...

Hui Khee Looe (right) is Deputy Head of the Department of Medical Physics, University Clinic for Medical Radiation Physics and Radiation Protection, Pius Hospital, Oldenburg, Germany, and holds a PhD ...

The Hottest Field in Physics Is Ultracold An ultracold plasma of 26,000 beryllium ions fluoresces when hit by a laser pulse.

This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to ...

Patricia Rankin, chair of the American Physical Society’s committee on the status of women in physics, also cautioned against assuming that the last author on a paper is the most senior. “The meaning ...

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 ...

I find this very frustrating, because physics as a whole is not in crisis. The "crisis" being described is real, but it affects only the subset of physics that deals with fundamental particles and ...

For a century, quantum theory has passed every experimental test, but physicists can’t agree on how to use it to paint a picture of our reality – or even whether that is possible ...

Unfortunately, physics like other academic fields usually doesn’t give much support to those who don’t want to play follow the leader.