For the first time, physicists in Italy have created a 'lump soliton': an extremely stable packet of light waves which can ...

China is preparing to send a new kind of eye into orbit, a space observatory built to map the cosmos with a breadth and ...

The accelerating expansion of the universe is usually explained by an invisible force known as dark energy. But a new study ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the immovable backdrop of modern physics, a force that can be described and ...

How is it that quantum physics governs the very smallest things in the universe, yet classical, Newtonian rules describe the movements of everything else, from people to planets? In the second of two ...

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) stock is down nearly 9% from its 52-week high, which it reached on Oct. 29. This is despite the company delivering a strong earnings report that showed growth ...

While atmospheric turbulence is a familiar culprit of rough flights, the chaotic movement of turbulent flows remains an unsolved problem in physics. To gain insight into the system, a team of ...

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find aliens. Reading time 6 minutes At Gizmodo, we love a good story about ...

ABSTRACT: The application of Eulerian codes for the numerical solution of the kinetic equations of plasmas has become a powerful numerical tool. In the present work, we use an Eulerian Vlasov code for ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Progress in the foundations of physics is moving slowly. And yet it moves. Today I look at the five biggest problems in physics, what their status is, and how long it will ...

It's fun to think about the fundamental physical constants. These are special values used in our models of the physical universe. They include things like the speed of light, the gravitational ...