Physics can feel inscrutable to students; this lesson helps them understand a graphing problem by analyzing their own ...

Down at the level of atoms and electrons, quantum physics describes the behavior of the very smallest objects. Solar panels, LED lights, your mobile phone and MRI scanners in hospitals: all of these ...

A team of physicists say they have found a way to sidestep Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, one of the more troublesome and irritating rules of our universe. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, for ...

A tiny, particle-sized engine that runs at temperatures approaching the innermost core of the Sun could open a window into ...

This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley), Michel H. Devoret (Yale University and University of California, Santa Barbara) and John M.

Priyamvada Natarajan, chair of Yale’s Astronomy Department, has been named the Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton professor of astronomy and professor of physics. Natarajan’s new title honors the legacy ...

The human brain, with its billions of interconnected neurons giving rise to consciousness, is generally considered the most powerful and flexible computer in the known universe. Yet for decades ...

R. Rajaraman, a distinguished Indian theoretical physicist, prominent nuclear weapon policy scholar and advocate for nuclear disarmament, and longtime collaborator with Princeton’s Program on Science ...