The Latest Breaking News on Physics

As one of the co-founders of one of British engineering’s biggest post-War success stories, Audrey Wood was a pioneer in spinning out a commercial company from a famous university. Oxford Instruments began in 1959 and produced its first superconductor magnet in 1961. Its journey from the college lab to the cutting edge…

A Quantumania-inspired tour of the technologies and possibilities of quantum science.

Italian polymath modeled gravitational constant to around 97 per cent accuracy, scientists say

Physicists propose that if dark energy formed bubbles in the dark plasma of the early universe, it could solve one of the biggest mysteries in modern physics.

Almost a century ago, German physicist Werner Heisenberg realised the laws of quantum mechanics placed some fundamental limits on how accurately we can measure certain properties of microscopic objects.

Scientists successfully guided lightning with lasers, which could improve storm safety and offer new physics insights.

Albert Einstein, the acclaimed theoretical physicist, is credited with saying the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial life was a fringe pursuit; now, experts are taking it seriously

Dark matter is an archetype of a missing phenomenon, but there are plenty of potential explanations for it.

Scientists made headlines last week for supposedly generating a wormhole. The research, reported in Nature, involves the use of a quantum computer to simulate a wormhole in a simplified model of physics.

Theoretical achievement hailed, though sending people through a physical wormhole remains in the realms of science fiction