While science proceeds in understanding our world, it's not always a path of unremitting forward progress. Sometimes, there are some missteps. The regularities behind how knowledge grows and changes ...

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, ...

Physicists explore science and how things work. Our students learn the physical concepts of the laws of nature and how these concepts answer questions and solve real problems. Earning a bachelor’s ...

Try our fun new interactive end-of-year quiz, which is (mostly) based on stories and events covered in Physics World. Compiled by Colin White. How well have you been following events in physics? There ...

Engineering physics blends concepts from engineering, physics and math while taking theoretical science and turning it into practical engineering. Engineering physicists often specialize in frontier ...

That lead sentence of an article in Science News a few months ago summarized an experimental result by the Arizona State University psychologist Michael McBeath. McBeath and collaborators had asked ...

Artificial intelligence startup BeyondMath Ltd. said today it has raised $8.5 million in a seed funding round to train its foundational large language models on physics equations, as part of its ...

In 1997, I had a vision that I drew out in a flash that would change my life. It depicted the evolution of complexity that started with energy and grew into the dimensions of matter, life, mind, and ...

Wu designed and executed an experiment that questioned — and then disproved — the infallibility of parity. After freezing a ...