A philosopher has put forward an argument for rethinking how particles are defined within the standard model of particle ...

How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a system—like the orbit of planets.

Time has always seemed like the one thing physics could count on. Matter changes, stars die, particles flicker in and out, ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, has shut down for a planned 4-year upgrade that will make it 10 ...

Device based on two-dimensional oxide interface superconductors can be “edited” using atomic force microscope lithography ...

It feels like there’s no escaping AI right now, whether you’re trying to type a sentence without being interrupted by a digital “assistant” or struggling to find a new refrigerator that doesn’t ...

The University of Minnesota-connected citizen science platform logs its one billionth contribution to scientific knowledge.

The mechanical process of cell division exerts powerful, if microscopic, forces. How do the molecular machines that power it ...

Getting that high-end graphics card might not help if you're "CPU-bound." Here's what that means and how to work around it.

To improve quantum computers, Zhenjie Yan wants to understand how to efficiently shuttle quantum information.

Collaboration is often highly valued among University of Illinois professors, and this past year, the UI Archives has seen a ...