Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The ...

SCIENCE FOR EVERYONE: State Sen. Andrew Zwicker, who is also a physicist and hosts the “Science on Saturday” series at ...

Discover the history of IIT Bombay, which was the first to provide engineering physics. Learn about the 2026 course offerings ...

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

John Stewart Bell has pedestrian walkway named after him close to childhood home, but locals are keen to increase awareness ...

The scientist who discovered the black hole at the center of our galaxy reflects on social media and the unpredictable power ...

It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is described extremely well by quantum theory, while the world of gravitation ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called “Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?” Hawking, who later became my ...

In a bold step toward deepening our understanding of the universe, Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Physics has launched "In Theory," a Seminar Series in Theoretical Physics. This initiative ...

Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the behavior of elementary particles ...

Joining the sweeping theory of general relativity to the probabilistic world of quantum mechanics is perhaps the greatest challenge in modern physics. Each has been borne out on its own scale by ...