The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

Right at the brink of a black hole, gravity twists space and time so violently that ordinary physics starts to fall apart.

Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something the universe simply hands to particles, a property encoded in ...

Over the past century, quantum field theory has proved to be the single most sweeping and successful physical theory ever invented. It is an umbrella term that encompasses many specific quantum field ...

In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...

Particle and nuclear physics evokes evokes images of huge accelerators probing the extremes of matter. But in this round-up ...

Female physicists who want to succeed in the workplace often face barriers that their male counterparts do not. Jennifer Dyer looks at how initiatives by the Institute of Physics, and other ...

As we learn more about electricity, we have to talk about fields. As we learn more about electricity, we have to talk about fields. Electric fields may seem complicated, but they're really fascinating ...

Examine the theories around energy and matter with faculty researchers who are making their mark in the physics world. Explore optics and photonics, the physics behind music, and more at an R1 ...

In an opinion piece he wrote for Physics World a few years ago, Whiting School of Engineering Materials Science Professor Michael Falk asserted that minorities in physics are routinely subjected to ...