What is Physics? Physics is a discipline that appeals to problem solvers who are curious about the world. Physicists work to gain knowledge of the mysteries of the universe—visible matter makes up ...

This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to ...

Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.” ...

Associate physics professor Bogdan Andrei Bernevig and former University professor Arthur McDonald were recognized for their work in physics on Sunday – Bernevig was awarded the 2016 New Horizons in ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their fundamental discoveries in machine learning, which paved the way for how artificial intelligence is ...

Two pioneers of artificial intelligence—John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton—won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is ...

A billion billion attoseconds just passed while you read this. Why is such a tiny timeframe crucial to this year's Nobel physics prize winners?

A new advancement in theoretical physics could, one day, help engineers develop new kinds of computer chips that might store information for long periods of time in very small objects.

Your work in the 1970s with Martinus Veltman is celebrated in part because of its importance for the Standard Model of particle physics, the most well-tested and successful scientific theory ever ...

Serving the Brown community since 1891After death, physics prof. remembered for mentorship, imagination and contributions to Nobel-winning work Gerald Guralnik contributed research to landmark Higgs ...

Alexandru Lupsasca and Michael Johnson won the New Horizons award for their work on photon spheres — weird rings of light around black holes that may reveal a theory of quantum gravity.