Almost anytime physicists announce that they’ve discovered a new particle, whether it’s the Higgs boson or the recently bagged double-charm tetraquark, what they’ve actually spotted is a small bump ...

At first glance, physics and food science appear to belong to different worlds. Physics is often seen as abstract, mathematical and distant from daily life, while food science feels immediate, ...

How does the medical physics profession perform when it comes to gender equality? (Courtesy: iStock/grifare) Physics has one of the largest gender gaps among all science, technology, engineering and ...

The ladybug, shaped by the environment in which it lives. In his new book, Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution, Charles Cockell from the University of Edinburgh makes the argument that ...

Shape shift: adding just one neutron can transform a mercury nucleus from a sphere to a rugby ball. (Courtesy: Krystof Dockx) A 40-year-old mystery of why mercury nuclei change shape dramatically has ...

The electron, against predictions, appears to be perfectly round, raising questions about one of the fundamental building blocks of the universe. An electron's shape refers to that of the cloud of ...