When atoms collide, their exact structure—for example, the number of electrons they have or even the quantum spin of their ...

What motivates students from non-traditional backgrounds to choose physics at university? Researchers at Communication and Learning in Science, among others, have investigated this question. The ...

Many objects that we normally deal with in quantum physics are only visible with special microscopes—individual molecules or ...

On February 11, 2025, the current US government published a website of the US Senate Commerce Committee (Chairman Ted Cruz) announcing the results of an “investigation” into research grants funded by ...

On February 13, 2023, the ARCA detector, part of the neutrino telescope KM3NeT located off the southeast coast of Sicily, recorded a neutrino with an estimated energy of approximately 220 quadrillion ...

Many of us naturally fall into one of three fundamental roles: artisan, architect or artist. So which are you?

Researchers have discovered various topological structures in water waves (skyrmions, merons, Möbius and vortices with ...

William Matthaeus, the Martin A. Pomerantz Chair of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, has won UD’s highest ...

Quantum physics underlies technologies from the laser to the smartphone. The International Year of Quantum marks a century of scientific developments.

For over a century, the Maxwell’s Demon paradox has haunted physics. This thought experiment suggests that a tiny, ...

Example of a graph: Work done is the area under the graph of force versus displacement, with the sign of the area indicating whether the work is positive (area is above the \( x \)-axis), or negative ...

The quantum and condensed matter elements of the core are completed in the third year. The Theoretical Physics degree does include practical work including computing and mathematics. The third year ...