Auroras have been making headlines and spreading across social media lately due to the solar storm. This guide will show you ...

Artist's visualization of the doorway states: the "trapped" electrons are like a frog, which has enough energy to escape but does not find the door. Imagine a frog sitting inside a box. The box has a ...

Physicists finally identified why some quantum materials seemingly lose their electrical conductivity for no reason.

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Two recent studies published in Nature and Science Advances explored quantum approaches that could improve the precision of ...

Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.

Learn more about the discovery of the electron and why J.J. Thomson often gets the credit.

Electricity is the lifeblood of modern life, but even the most efficient power lines lose energy along the way. For decades, scientists have searched for materials that could carry electric current ...