Many heavy atomic nuclei are shaped more or less like squashed rugby balls than fully inflated ones, according to a ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

Until now, physicists thought that all heavy nuclei deformed from spheres are elongated in one direction like rugby balls ...

The engineering of optically synthesized magnetic fields allows neutral atoms to emulate charged behavior, paving the way for ...

Century old Quantum Mechanics can explain how a single sub-atomic particle cross the energy barrier through tunneling, be located at multiple places simultaneously, occupies discrete energy levels and ...

QUT researchers have identified why some materials can block heat more effectively, which is a key feature for energy ...

Far above Earth, scientists are using quantum sensors to listen for the faintest whispers of unseen forces that may weave through the universe. Scientists are constantly searching for new clues about ...

Prof Higgs, who died last April, was a researcher at the university in the 1960s when he made a groundbreaking prediction - ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics with Francois Englert in 2013. Edinburgh University said Prof Higgs left ...

There are gazillions of different possible universes that can be described and understood using the tools provided by string ...