When Gabriel Lippmann collected the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics, he did so for an invention he himself admitted was of limited practical use. His method of colour photography, based on optical ...

Gabriel Lippmann received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908 for a new method of colour photography that was never commercially successful. Margaret Harris finds out why ...

This article explores how our understanding of the universe has evolved—from the scale of everyday experience down to the Planck length ...

Abstract: Theoretical physicist John McGreevy (UCSD) will introduce the Entanglement Bootstrap, a program to extract and understand the universal information characterizing a phase of matter starting ...

Quantum physics is the study of matter and energy at its most fundamental level. A central tenet of quantum physics is that energy comes in indivisible packets called quanta. Quanta behave very ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

Stress is a very real factor in the structure of our universe. Not the kind of stress that students experience when taking a test, but rather the physical stresses that affect everyday objects.

The institute has been a unique fixture in Ireland, and now, with space central to its future, the sky is no limit ...

With the onset of fall, viral infections are occurring more frequently again. Dr. Sascha Kupke, team leader in the Bioprocess Engineering research group at the Max Planck Institute in Magdeburg, will ...

From 5:00 p.m., scientists from the Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity Department will be available at an information stand to answer questions about gravitational-wave astronomy and relativity ...