The experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detect rare events on a daily basis, but some are exceptionally rare, such as this latest result from the CMS collaboration. For the first time, the ...

Physicists finally identified why some quantum materials seemingly lose their electrical conductivity for no reason.

On July 4, 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland announced with great fanfare that they had ...

A University of Michigan-led team has discovered quantum oscillations within an insulator’s bulk, overturning conventional understanding of material behavior and hinting at a mysterious “new duality” ...

Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.

The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the ...

Ghost particles' can zoom through you without a trace. Scientists are getting to the bottom of this cosmic mystery ...

This engineering exam, which is a gateway to some of the premium engineering colleges such as IITs, NITs and more, cover ...

Virtual particles exploit the natural fuzziness of the subatomic world, where if these ephemeral particles live briefly enough, they can also briefly borrow their energy from empty space. The haziness ...