Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

Casting a swirling shadow, a glowing candle flame sways eerily before flaring up once more. As ghostly as it looks, this flame dance is not the result of any force—paranormal or otherwise—but rather ...

In a quiet lab in Vienna, a group of physicists ran an experiment in 2012 that should have been impossible. They fired two ...

Scientists use light to change matter’s magnetic nature at room temperature, revealing quantum effects once thought impossible.

Imagine the energy of a single speck traveling at the speed of light. This experiment breaks down the physics behind extreme ...

From levitating magnets to mind-bending psychology studies, these ten experiments reveal just how surprising - and mysterious ...

John Clarke, Michel H Devoret and John M. Martinis are announced this year's Nobel Prize winners in Physics, by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at a press conference in Stockhom, Sweden October ...

Three physicists have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for demonstrating quantum physics at the macroscopic scale. The research, including into the bizarre phenomena of quantum tunnelling ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists – a Briton, a Frenchman and an American – for their ground-breaking discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics. John Clarke, ...

The ALICE Collaboration is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for transforming lead into gold for a fraction of a second and exposing the strange physics that goes on inside the Large Hadron ...