Watching, modeling and even playing winter sports help students internalize physics concepts, including acceleration, ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Time is a straightforward concept - or is it? The passing of minutes and years isn't as easy to explain as many assume.

Doing physics is messy and being a physicist is even more complicated. Today, every physicist faces a complex reality of human and systemic factors when pursuing research: grant deadlines, peer-review ...

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 are quietly testing an audacious idea: that the mass of everything around us might not come from an invisible field, but from the hidden geometry of space itself. Instead of treating extra ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When she was 10 years old, Rose Yu got a birthday present that would change her life—and, potentially, the way we study physics. Her ...

Ambuj Tewari receives funding from the NSF. If your jaw dropped as you watched the latest AI-generated video, your bank balance was saved from criminals by a fraud detection system, or your day was ...

Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism and the Euler equation top a poll to find the greatest equations of all time. Robert P Crease discusses the results of his reader survey First among equals – ...

Andrew Coe says that physicists need to be more open minded to help build an inclusive environment for people who identify themselves as LGBT+ Scientists are often driven by a need to classify the ...