Newswise — A Los Alamos collaboration has replicated an important but largely forgotten physics experiment: the first deuterium-tritium (DT) fusion observation. As described in Physical Review C, the ...

Researchers have successfully recreated a long-theorized form of turbulence found deep inside planets and stars, providing ...

The University of Queensland’s pitch drop experiment started in 1927, and only nine drops have fallen since. The 10th has ...

Deep beneath the surface of some of the world's most demanding physics experiments, a quiet revolution in sensing technology ...

Wendelstein 7-X begins OP2.4, a 12-week campaign focused on high-performance plasmas, fast ions and long pulses.

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research awarded the grant to two Georgetown physics professors, who also plan to develop ...

For the first time, a physicist has experimentally watched time emerge from within an isolated quantum system — by creating a “mini-universe.” This bizarre experiment raises an intriguing question: If ...

Paul L. Richards, an experimental physicist who built some of the first highly sensitive detectors to probe the faint radiation left over from the birth of the universe, died peacefully at his home in ...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is developing a new project which aims to use AI to expedite fusion energy research. Shantenu Jha, the head of PPPL’s Computational ...

The world of quantum physics is experiencing a second revolution, which will drive an exponential leap in the progress of computing, the internet, telecommunications, cybersecurity and biomedicine.