Two UC Berkeley faculty, a UCLA physicist and a UC Santa Barbara Nobel laureate were awarded Breakthrough Foundation prizes ...

A closed door feels absolute. Light stays in one room, darkness settles in the next, and the boundary seems obvious enough to ...

A leading physicist argues the brain may operate like a quantum system—and that enhancing it could create humans who perceive ...

While dogs often receive praise for their abilities, it appears cats are equally impressive. Researchers have found that cats ...

For Adam Piotr Pikul of the Polish Academy of Sciences, there is always more to understand about the basic physics of uranium ...

Collaboration that made precise measurement of the g-2 value honored with $3 million from the Breakthrough Prize in ...

Predicting material properties remains a major challenge in materials science, as it often requires complex and ...

Some quantum cryptographers want to find ways to keep messages secret even if the rules of quantum mechanics don’t hold. The ...

For the first time, scientists have directly imaged the quantum process underlying superconductivity, a phenomenon in which ...

The setup of the ingenious computer that works with tension and springs. Credit: St. Olaf College It has no wires, no silicon ...

Energy can never be created or destroyed. That's basic Physics 101. You simply cannot create energy out of thin air. Yet ...

A new calculation helps narrow down the mass of the W boson, one of the heaviest fundamental particles in the universe ...