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When is a traffic jam not a traffic jam? When it's a quantum traffic jam, of course. Only in quantum physics can traffic be standing...

A little frustration can make life interesting. This is certainly the case in physics, where the presence of competing forces that cannot...

Ever since J.J. Thompson’s 1897 discovery of the electron, scientists have attempted to describe the subatomic particle’s motion using a...

When a baseball pitcher uncorks a nasty curveball, the spinning motion of the ball forces air to flow around it at different speeds,...

Research led by North Carolina State University sheds new light on the ways in which protons and neutrons can bind and even undergo a...

Applied scientists led by Caltech's Kerry Vahala have discovered a new type of optical soliton wave that travels in the wake of other...