Bill Pugliano / Getty Elon Musk. When Elon Musk was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, he pursued a dual degree in business and physics. "It was an unusual combination," he told ...

Accommodations necessitated by the global pandemic made participation in academic conferences easier for physicists with and without disabilities. Even before COVID-19 made airports and train stations ...

Flash Physics is our daily pick of the latest need-to-know developments from the global physics community selected by Physics World‘s team of editors and reporters How it works: tunnelling pairs ...

There’s a lot of discussion about “time” in the world of quantum physics. At the micro level, where waves and particles can behave the same, time tends to be much more malleable than it is in our ...

Wednesday evening, about 150 science (and ice cream) enthusiasts gathered on the campus of the Aspen Center for Physics for the Star Gazers ice cream social hosted by the Aspen Science Center. This ...

Particle physics has revolutionized the way we look at the universe. Along the way, it’s made significant impacts on other fields of science, improved daily life for people around the world and ...

As the weather grows cold this winter, you may be one of the many Americans pulling their winter jackets out of the closet.

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists involved in laser physics. One half of the prize was given to Arthur Ashkin for his role in developing optical tweezers, which use ...

If you major in physics at university, it is pretty easy later in life to keep current with art, literature or music. But if you major in art, literature or music, no matter how interested you might ...

When Elon Musk was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, he pursued a dual degree in business and physics. “It was an unusual combination,” he told Physics World in 2007, “and I enjoyed ...