The Latest Breaking News on Physics

It’s time to work out exactly what to do with a problem that has become increasingly urgent, and severe, with the rise of the digital world.

Our new study, published in Nature Astronomy, has now tested Einstein’s theory on the largest of scales. We believe our approach may one day help resolve some of the biggest mysteries in cosmology, and the results hint that the theory of general relativity may need to be tweaked on this…

Prototype unveiled of the UK’s first commercial neutral atom quantum system

There’s an awkward, irksome problem with our understanding of nature’s laws which physicists have been trying to explain for decades. It’s about electromagnetism, the law of how atoms and light interact, which explains everything from why you don’t fall through the floor to why the sky is blue.

Everything in the universe has gravity – and feels it too. Yet this most common of all fundamental forces is also the one that presents the biggest challenges to physicists. Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has been remarkably successful in describing the gravity of stars and planets, but it…

Quantum mechanics, the theory which rules the microworld of atoms and particles, certainly has the X factor. Unlike many other areas of physics, it is bizarre and counter-intuitive, which makes it dazzling and intriguing. When the 2022 Nobel prize in physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton…

The elusive stuff makes up most of the Universe — and a new study hones in on how much there is and its nature.

Susan Scott receives Blaise Pascal medal from European Academy of Science

An Australian has won an international science medal for ground-breaking discoveries in general relativity, cosmology and gravitational wave science.