A thumbnail-sized diamond chip just pulled off something that quantum physics says should be extraordinarily difficult: ...

Scientists from collaborations at Fermilab, CERN and Brookhaven National Laboratory have won the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in ...

Daniel Shaddock is co-founder of Liquid Instruments and professor of physics at the Australian National University in Canberra. He spoke with Hamish Johnston about innovation in the test and ...

Scientists working on Fermilab's Muon g-2 experiment released the world's most precise measurement yet of the magnetic moment of the muon, bringing particle physics closer to the ultimate showdown ...

The Quantum Physics Division (QPD) has a diverse range of programs, including nanotechnology and biological physics, but it continues its firm and unified base in metrology, appropriate for the ...

A U.S. research lab has announced one of the most precise measurements ever of how a subatomic particle behaves, teeing up a showdown that could either vindicate one of science’s most powerful ...

On April 7, particle physicists all over the world were excited and energized by the announcement of a measurement of the behavior of muons—the heavier, unstable subatomic cousins of electrons—that ...

For a few years, one of particle physics’ most unsettling numbers seemed to be pointing somewhere strange. The trouble ...

A new calculation helps narrow down the mass of the W boson, one of the heaviest fundamental particles in the universe ...

Here at Physics World we’re planning to publish special issues later this year on time (in July) and on SI units and measurement (in November). So to find out more about the latest work in these ...

OBJECTIVE: To determine and compare the extent of within- and between-laboratory precision in body volume (BV) measurements using air displacement plethysmography (ADP), the BOD POD body composition ...