Dark energy and black holes are two of the most mysterious topics when it comes to space, but they might actually be linked.

Fusion power could solve the world's energy problems. The issue is making it work in a cost-effective way. A new breakthrough ...

The experiment at CERN produced pairs of electron and positron beams, propagating into an ambient plasma. The international ...

Due to government shutdown restrictions currently in place in the US, the researchers who headed up this study have not been able to comment on their work Laser plasma acceleration (LPA) may be used ...

Astrophysicists at the University of Chicago have developed physics-based models suggesting that dark energy could be changing over time. Dark energy, the mysterious force causing the universe to ...

Scientists at TU Wien found that electrons need specific “doorway states” to escape solids, not just energy. The insight ...

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, ...

President Donald Trump took credit for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, which was awarded this month to three scientists.

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in California. He was 88. Winston was a University of Chicago professor in the ...