Physics

President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media aboard Air Force One on October 30, 2025 in flight.

Desperate Trump Grabs Credit for Someone Else’s Nobel Prize

The president can’t seem to get the Nobel Prizes off his mind.

Julia Ornedo

Geoffrey Hinton on Centre Stage during day two of the Collision 2023 conference at the Enercare Centre in Toronto, Canada.

‘Godfather of AI’ Who Regretted His Work Wins Nobel Prize

“I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn’t done it, somebody else would have.”

Sean Craig

Peter Higgs poses for a photograph next to a statute in 2013.

‘TRULY GIFTED’

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Peter Higgs Dies at 94

Peter Higgs died “peacefully at home following a short illness,” the University of Edinburgh said.

Josh Fiallo

The scene where a container ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on March 26, 2024.

Ship Hit Baltimore Bridge With Force of a Rocket Launch: NYT

Experts disagreed on whether any bridge would withstand an impact of that magnitude.

Amanda Yen

Scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier are announced as the winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics at a press conference in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 3, 2023.

Physics Nobel Prize Goes to Scientists Studying Electrons

Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier studied the movement of electrons during just a tiny fraction of a second.

Allison Quinn

"A supercooled superconductor creates magnetic levitation, as well as steam, due to its low temperature."

(CON)FUSION ENERGY

Sorry, But the New Superconductor News Might Be Total BS

It would be incredibly groundbreaking if it were true at all.

Tony Ho Tran