A network of optical cavities could be used to detect gravitational waves (GWs) in an unexplored range of frequencies, according to researchers in the UK. Using technology already within reach, the ...

The world's most sensitive table-top interferometric system—a miniature version of miles-long gravitational-wave detectors ...

Can we reveal objects that are hidden in environments completely opaque to the human eye? With conventional imaging ...

Wave-particle interactions across the solar system can have a wide range of effects though they are caused by the same set of ...

Nobel Prize winners showcase quantum tunnelling in macroscopic circuits, paving the way for quantum computing.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John Martinis built an electrical circuit-based oscillator on a microchip.

Discover the groundbreaking work of John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis in the field of quantum physics. Learn how ...

We also look back to two early Nobel prizes, which were given for very puzzling reasons. One was awarded in 1908 to Gabriel Lippmann for an impractical colour-photography technique that was quickly ...

This Star Trek concept ignited a dream that humans could one day travel faster than the speed of light. Now physicists are ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

STOCKHOLM — Three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of ...