A new unified theory connects two fundamental domains of modern quantum physics: It joins two opposite views of how a single ...

It is with sadness that I share news that Professor Arthur Mittler, 82, longtime member of the UMass Lowell faculty, died unexpectedly on Thursday, Jan. 15. Professor Mittler earned his bachelor’s ...

A hundred years ago, quantum mechanics was a radical theory that baffled even the brightest minds. Today, it's the backbone ...

Observations of the two solar system gas giants have revealed that Jupiter 's north pole hosts a central polar vortex ...

The neural network approach uses multiple or “deep” layers that learn to identify increasingly complex features in data. The ...

This is where Emmy Noether, a groundbreaking German mathematician, comes into the picture. She found a breathtakingly simple ...

Holtkamp will oversee the completion of the $1.5bn Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility-Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment ...

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

A new theory suggests gravity could possibly be the result of entropy—which would mean everything in the universe would fall ...

During World War Two, a pair of physicists went to great lengths to keep their Nobel Prize medals out of the hands of the Nazis. Here’s the absolutely wild story.

After the Big Bang, the Universe entered a long, dark period before the first stars formed. During this era, hydrogen emitted a faint radio signal that still echoes today. New simulations show this ...

Quantum materials can behave in surprising ways when many tiny spins act together, producing effects that don’t exist in ...