WASHINGTON — Biological physics — also known as the physics of living systems — has emerged fully as a field of physics alongside other recognized fields such as astrophysics and nuclear physics, says ...
An interdisciplinary group of faculty members is working to make RIT and upstate New York a vibrant hub for the burgeoning field of soft matter physics. Sometimes known as “squishy physics,” the field ...
With $15.5 million in NSF funding, the University of Chicago is launching a new cutting-edge physics center called the Center for Living Systems. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $76 ...
On October 8, 2024, the field of physics was plunged into controversy. That day, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for discoveries not involving black holes, cosmology, or strange new subatomic ...
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, ...
In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...
It took 125 years, but in 2025 a team of mathematicians discovered the solution to a long-puzzling problem about the ...