The transverse Thomson effect is observed for the first time: current, heat, and magnetic fields generate controlled cooling ...

Graphene is stronger than steel and a better conductor that copper, making the two-dimensional material of particular ...

Female physicists who want to succeed in the workplace often face barriers that their male counterparts do not. Jennifer Dyer looks at how initiatives by the Institute of Physics, and other ...

Magnetic heating could be playing a much more prominent role in the evolution of neutron stars than previously expected, claim astrophysicists in Spain and the US. The researchers looked at data ...

Excitons, bound states between an electron (i.e., a negatively charged particle) and a hole (i.e., the absence of an electron ...

Physics is the study of the underlying laws and mechanisms explaining how the universe works. Most of what we do in daily life is based on a principle or law of physics—dealing with forces, motion, ...

A landmark has been reached in the field of physics and artificial intelligence with the successful resolution of a ...

Build an individualized career with a physics foundation in Michigan Tech's unique program at an R1 flagship technological university. You'll examine the building blocks of existence, from the ...

In an opinion piece he wrote for Physics World a few years ago, Whiting School of Engineering Materials Science Professor Michael Falk asserted that minorities in physics are routinely subjected to ...