Like many physicists, I understand quantum mechanics only if I don’t actually think about it. Once I dig a bit deeper, I soon find myself scrabbling at the edges of some very big questions. Like, what ...

Drexel’s Department of Physics hosted its annual Kaczmarczik Lecture and Science Fair on February 27. This year’s Kaczmarczik Lecture was the 24th installment of this signature College of Arts and ...

Physics Nobel Laureate John Martinis discussed his quantum physics research and offered academic advice to a packed ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.—Renowned French scientist Alain Aspect, who won the 2022 Nobel Prize for his pathfinding research in quantum physics, will give a lecture on Monday (May 13) at Purdue University ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Presidential Lecture Series event next week featuring Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek is being moved from Fowler Hall to the larger Loeb Playhouse in Stewart Center because of ...

A series of free lectures at the University of Chicago will describe how the machines that physicists have built to understand matter on the smallest scales over the last century have found additional ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, resisting every attempt to merge Einstein’s smooth space-time with the jittery world of quantum mechanics. A new wave of ...

The 10th Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture was delivered at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, LUMS, by Harvard physicist Subir Sachdev, who highlighted the scientific legacy of Pakistan ...

Over the short span of just 300 years, since the invention of modern physics, we have gained a deeper understanding of how our universe works on both small and large scales. Yet, physics is still very ...