For most of the 20th century, physicists largely ignored living systems. They understood living things as machines, albeit ...

Currently, there are 100 trillion neutrinos flowing through you. Don’t worry though; they hardly interact with matter. In ...

Physics World is delighted to announce its Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year for 2025, which includes research in astronomy, antimatter, atomic and molecular physics and more. The Top Ten is the ...

For more than a century, gravity and quantum physics have stubbornly resisted a common language, one describing the smooth ...

As a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is, “When are you going to find something?” Resisting the temptation to sarcastically ...

Scientists have taken a major step toward solving a long-standing mystery in particle physics, by finding no sign of the ...

After a decade-long analysis, a collaboration of physicists has made the most precise measurement of the mass of a key particle – and it may unravel physics as we know it. The new measurement differs ...

A groundbreaking study from Radboud University suggests the universe may end in approximately 10^78 years, significantly ...

Funding pressures are a major driver: among graduate physics programs that intentionally planned to enroll fewer students in ...