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Lise Meitner, the ‘Atomic Pioneer’ Who Never Won a Nobel Prize

Par : Katrina Miller
Lise Meitner developed the theory of nuclear fission, the process that enabled the atomic bomb. But her identity — Jewish and a woman — barred her from sharing credit for the discovery, newly translated letters show.

Lise Meitner, the Austrian-born physicist, was a longtime collaborator of Otto Hahn, who won the Nobel Prize in 1944. She did not share in the award with him.

Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work on Electrons

Par : Emma Bubola and Katrina Miller
Techniques resulting from the work of Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier let scientists capture the motions of subatomic particles moving at impossible speeds.

From left, Pierre Agostini, Anne L’Huillier and Ferenc Krausz, recipients of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics, announced Tuesday.

The Big Nobel Prize Winners Were Short and Fast

Par : Dennis Overbye
The awards for physics and chemistry were a reminder that the most important processes in nature unfold on a scale divorced from everyday human affairs.

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three scientists who figured out how to produce bursts of laser light only one-millionth of one-trillionth of a second long.

Magnetic Minerals May Have Given Life Its Molecular Asymmetry

Par : Yasemin Saplakoglu
The preferred “handedness” of biomolecules could have emerged from interactions between electrons and magnetic surfaces on primordial Earth, new research suggests.

The Physics of Faraday Cages

Par : Rhett Allain
You can't block electromagnetic waves, but there's still a way to keep electronic devices like cell phones in stealth mode.

Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking

Par : Ben Brubaker
Mathematical proofs based on a technique called diagonalization can be relentlessly contrarian, but they help reveal the limits of algorithms.

How to Measure the Calories in a Candy Bar—With Physics!

Par : Rhett Allain
Step one: Trick or treat. Step two: Get out your bomb calorimeter. (Yes, that is a real thing.)

Could a Cockroach Survive a Fall From Space?

Par : Rhett Allain
If you’re resorting to more, uh, unconventional pest control methods, you’ll want to read this first.

Dr. Jessie Christiansen Wants to Help You Discover the Next Exoplanet

Par : Swapna Krishna
As project scientist on NASA’s Exoplanet Archive, Dr. Christiansen is a huge advocate for citizen science—and making sure anyone can be a planet hunter.

How to Measure the Impact From a Collision

Par : Rhett Allain
Things smash into one other. Here’s what to do next.

Dr. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski Will Change How You Think About Space

Par : Swapna Krishna
Pioneering a new field in cosmology, Dr. Pasterski explores diverse perspectives in physics and astronomy—and whether the universe might actually be a hologram.

Dr. Dara Norman Wants to Bring More People Into Science

Par : Swapna Krishna
From data access to scientific merit, Dr. Norman is working to make astronomy—and all STEM fields—more inclusive.

How Dr. Clara Nellist Collides Art and Science

Par : Swapna Krishna
This particle physicist, science communicator, and member of the team who uncovered the Higgs Boson wants everyone to know that art and science aren’t mutually exclusive.

Dr. Nergis Mavalvala Detected the First Gravitational Wave. Her Work Doesn’t Stop There

Par : Swapna Krishna
The dean of MIT’s School of Science embraces skepticism and failure, and she wants the next generation of scientists to jump right in.

An Invisible ‘Demon’ Lurks in an Odd Superconductor

Par : Charlie Wood
Physicists have long suspected that hunks of metal could vibrate in a peculiar way that would be all but invisible. Now physicists have spotted these “demon modes.”

Particle Physicists Offer a Road Map For the Next Decade

Par : Dennis Overbye and Katrina Miller
A “muon shot” aims to study the basic forces of the cosmos. But meager federal budgets could limit its ambitions.

A tunnel of the Superconducting Super Collider project in 1993, which was abandoned by Congress.

School of Rock: The Physics of Waves on Guitar Strings

Par : Rhett Allain
Playing the guitar is an art form. But the good vibrations you hear are a science.

The Tantalizing Mystery of the Solar System’s Hidden Oceans

Par : Robin Andrews
The moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn appear to have subsurface oceans which could support life beyond Earth. But it’s not clear why these seas exist at all.

These Rogue Worlds Upend the Theory of How Planets Form

Par : Charlie Wood
Scientists have recently discovered scores of free-floating planets that defy classification—forcing them to rethink their theories of star and planet formation.

Why the Polar Vortex Is Bad for Balloon Artists

Par : Rhett Allain
Leave a balloon out in the cold and it’ll shrink and look pathetic. Sorry, but that’s the law—the ideal gas law.

Dark Galaxies: What Happens When Stars Are Nearly Invisible

Par : Dennis Overbye
To dark matter and dark energy, add dark galaxies — collections of stars so sparse and faint that they are all but invisible.

An artist’s depiction of hydrogen gas observed in the galaxy J0613+52, with the colors indicating the likely rotation of the gas relative to the observer, red indicating motion away, blue indicating motion toward.

How to Convince Your Flat-Earth Friends the World Is Round

Par : Rhett Allain
Two experiments you can do yourself to finally, definitively put this question to rest.

Scientists Just Discovered a New Type of Magnetism

Par : Michael Greshko
In an atomically thin stack of semiconductors, a mechanism unseen in any natural substance causes electrons’ spins to align.

Fiber Optics Bring You Internet. Now They’re Also Listening to Trains

Par : Matt Simon
“Distributed acoustic sensing” looks for disturbances in fiber to detect earthquakes and even insects. Can it also improve rail safety?

Why Is Our Solar System Flat?

Par : Rhett Allain
It started as a big old ball of dust, so how did it end up like a giant pancake? Our resident physicist tells the true story using fake forces.

How to Guarantee the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles

Par : Steve Nadis
As computer-driven cars and planes become more common, the key to preventing accidents, researchers show, is to know what you don’t know.

A Celebrated Cryptography-Breaking Algorithm Just Got an Upgrade

Par : Madison Goldberg
Two researchers have improved a well-known technique for lattice basis reduction, opening up new avenues for practical experiments in cryptography and mathematics.

Google’s Chess Experiments Reveal How to Boost the Power of AI

Par : Stephen Ornes
By rewarding computers that combined different approaches to solve chess puzzles, Google created an enhanced AI that could defeat its existing champion, AlphaZero.

Is This New 50-Year Battery for Real?

Par : Rhett Allain
BetaVolt’s nuclear battery lasts for decades, but you won’t see one in your next iPhone—powering a mobile device would require a cell the size of a yak.

There’s a New Theory About Where Dark Matter Is Hiding

Par : Steve Nadis
An idea derived from string theory suggests that dark matter is hidden in an as-yet-unseen extra dimension. Scientists are racing to test the theory to see if it holds up.

How Do Heat Pumps Work?

Par : Rhett Allain
Our in-house physics whiz explains how a heat pump can warm your home without burning fossil fuels.

You Can Count on Pi

Par : Rhett Allain
On Pi Day we answer the burning question: Is there any world in which pi does not go on forever?

For Ytasha Womack, the Afrofuture is Now

Par : Katrina Miller
The writer and filmmaker discusses the blend of theoretical cosmology and Black culture in Chicago’s newest planetarium show.

Ytasha Womack, a screenwriter on “Niyah and the Multiverse,” currently playing at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, is the author of numerous works including “Black Panther: A Cultural Exploration.”

Never-Repeating Patterns of Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information

Par : Ben Brubaker
Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are mathematically equivalent to a kind of quantum error correction.

Walter Massey, a Physicist With a Higher Calling

Par : Katrina Miller
He broke barriers as the first Black physicist in nearly every role. But his identity made him reach for dreams beyond his career as a scientist.

Walter Massey outside his home in Chicago’s Hyde Park. “I’m a physicist,” he said. “And I don’t say, ‘I used to be.’”

Netflix’s '3 Body Problem' Adapts the Unadaptable

Par : Amit Katwala
For their next trick, Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss are tackling a complex piece of Chinese science fiction. This time, they know how it ends.

Large Language Models’ Emergent Abilities Are a Mirage

Par : Stephen Ornes
A new study suggests that sudden jumps in LLMs’ abilities are neither surprising nor unpredictable, but are actually the consequence of how we measure ability in AI.

Can You View a Round Solar Eclipse Through a Square Hole?

Par : Rhett Allain
Here’s a cool way to watch the eclipse on Monday—and learn about the weird physics of light while you’re at it.

A Popular Alien-Hunting Technique Is Increasingly in Doubt

Par : Elise Cutts
Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.

The Quest to Map the Inside of the Proton

Par : Charlie Wood
Long-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of energies, forces, and pressures inside a subatomic particle for the first time.
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