Renowned experimental physicist, Nobel laureate and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, ...

In normal sound waves, or phonons, the energy of the sound wave travelling through a medium increases linearly with its momentum. With rotons, however, low energy can be associated with high momentum.

The LIGO observatories confirmed Einstein’s theory of general relativity when they made the first ever physical detection of ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have made a new discovery by observing and analyzing the first new ...

Scientists in Europe have experimentally created a new class of light waves that can pass through opaque materials as if they were not there. These “scattering-invariant modes of light” create the ...

Light's behavior seems counterintuitive. That is, until you figure out light is a wave.

Quantum physics just keeps getting weirder, even as it gets more fascinating.

The physics community has learned a great deal about the universe from massive terrestrial gravitational wave experiments such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and ...