Physics

The universe did not collapse: CERN researchers transport antimatter

Researchers moved roughly 92 to 100 antiprotons for about 30 minutes over approximately five kilometers on its Geneva campus.

CERN Antimatter factory.
People protest against the nuclear deal reached with Iran before U.S. Vice President Joe Biden meets with Jewish community leaders at the David Posnack Jewish Community Center to discuss the deal on Sept. 3, 2015 in Davie, Florida.

Why trusting physics, not politics, once kept Iran in check - opinion

A woman sleeping with her shoes on

Physicists pinpoint mechanism behind familiar basketball shoes squeak

A MEMBER of a neo-Nazi party gives a salute outside a speech by Richard Spencer on the campus of Michigan State University on March 5

Schrödinger’s Jew: How antisemitism is more absurd than quantum mechanics - opinion


Steven Weinberg and the twilight of the godless universe

With the passing last month of Steven Weinberg, the world lost a great theoretical physicist.

Steven Weinberg at the 2010 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, United States.

Israeli scientists solve physics' 'three-body problem'

The three-body problem, which has been a focus of scientific study for over 400 years, represented a stumbling block for famous astronomers such as Isaac Newton and Johannes Kepler.

Earth from space

Israeli high schoolers rake in medals in Physics Olympics

The competition celebrates the significance of physics and aims to encourage the study of science and technology among high school students worldwide.

Israeli International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) team 2021 Jusidman Science Center Ben Gurion University

TAU researchers further understanding of 'God particle' at CERN

Scientists found that the decay of the Higgs boson into "charm" quarks doesn't deviate from the Standard Model of particle physics.

ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN

Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg, celebrated scientific mind, dies, 88

Born to Jewish immigrants, Weinberg's scientific accomplishments fueled his activism as a proud liberal and outspoken defender of Israel.

Steven Weinberg at the 2010 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, United States.

Hubble findings deepen mystery surrounding galaxy missing dark matter

The search is on for more galaxies lacking dark matter, with more work needed in order to understand how these galaxies formed without dark matter.

This Hubble Space Telescope snapshot reveals an unusual "see-through" galaxy.

CERN data suggests existence of 'new physics'

"This new result offers tantalizing hints of the presence of a new fundamental particle or force that interacts differently with these different types of particles."

A general view of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment is seen during a media visit at the Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in the French village of Saint-Genis-Pouilly near Geneva in Switzerland, July 23, 2014

Physics can solve key challenges facing AI, study finds

These findings represent a bridge in physics, AI and neuroscience, and has the potential to advance on-the-spot decision making in AI.

Artificial intelligence

Technion makes revolutionary light source on single atomic layer

These findings can revolutionize technology development and can pave the way for a wide range of devices on an atomic scale.

The incorporation of a WSe2 monolayer into a photonic crystal slab with geometric phase defects enables spin-dependent manipulation of the emission from valley excitons of the WSe2, as well as from randomly placed quantum emitters.

Black hole discoveries win 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics

Physics is the second of this year's crop of Nobels to be awarded, after three scientists won the medicine prize for their discovery of Hepatitis C on Monday.

A supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun is seen in an undated NASA artist's concept illustration.