Physicists have taken a gemstone better known for engagement rings and turned it into a laboratory for one of the strangest ideas in modern physics, a phase of matter that repeats in time instead of ...

The transition of a physical system from one phase to another is familiar from everyday life. Water, for example, can be a solid (ice), a liquid or a gas (steam), and a change in temperature causes ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. We've spent the last several days on a family vacation in Mexico, at a ...

With the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics due to be announced on Tuesday 8 October, Physics World journalists pick their favourite Nobel awards from the past. Here Hamish Johnston argues the case for the ...