Physics

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Belgian researcher Francis Halzen for high-energy neutrino discoveries, following the Medicine Prize announcement.

Newly released U.S. government documents reveal that the Pentagon previously funded theoretical physics studies on wormholes, spacetime manipulation, and extreme futuristic concepts.

The 36th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony in Zurich honored scientists who designed a splash-free urinal using fluid dynamics. The new curved design reduces liquid splatter by over 98% compared to commercial models.

Researchers from the USA and the UK discovered that an almost invisible change in the shape of graphene — an extremely thin material — can dramatically affect the way electricity passes through it. In a study published in the journal "Advanced Materials", it was found that wrinkles smaller than a billionth of a meter are capable of changing the electrical properties of the material.

Years before the particle accelerator, Homer Simpson scribbled on a chalkboard an equation that predicted the mass of the “God Particle” with astonishing precision. Behind the scientific prophecy in the classic 1998 episode stood a writers’ guild with degrees in mathematics and physics from Harvard — who planted, in a single frame, real string-theory equations and delivered one of the most...

In 1963, a curious teenager from Tanzania discovered that a hot ice cream mixture freezes faster than a lukewarm one. As sometimes happens in science, the effect he discovered changed the way we understand reality.

Researchers from the USA have presented a model that allows a wave to appear as if it is moving faster than expected, and under certain conditions, even beyond the speed of light. The phenomenon is related to the way waves reaching a destination via different paths connect to each other. According to the scientists, this finding may be relevant not only to sound in water but also to light in a...

A scientific breakthrough in China has solved a long-standing physics mystery: researchers have definitively proven the existence of a new type of matter never before seen in nature. The achievement follows 15 years of research building on nearly five decades of theoretical study.

As Israel faces a shortage of scientists and engineers, every outstanding researcher who drops out of the track due to structural barriers is a loss for academia and industry.