Waterloo scientists have developed a new way to understand how the universe began, and it could change what we know about the Big Bang and the earliest moments of cosmic history. Their work suggests ...

In 1916, only a year after Albert Einstein had published his general theory of relativity, Karl Schwarzschild used mathematical calculations to show this: If sufficient mass could be placed into an ...

Following the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, lateral flow assays (LFAs)—the category of test strips in which the ...

A flame goes out, and something in the room shifts with it. Not because matter has vanished, but because a structure has ...

After the passing of physicist Anthony Leggett, columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan remembers their personal connection with ...

Crystalline alloys used in motors today lose some energy through heat, but glass-like metals could solve this engineering ...

The collective gravity of countless neutrinos gently irons out the wrinkles in the cosmic web, preventing matter from ...

Scientists observe a visible time crystal for the first time, revealing a phase of matter that repeats patterns through time.

Many-body physics is the study of large ensembles of interacting particles and their collective behaviour. These systems are ...

Physics is the study of the underlying laws and mechanisms explaining how the universe works. Most of what we do in daily life is based on a principle or law of physics—dealing with forces, motion, ...

The Porsche 911 doesn’t just reward skill, it forces you to understand the laws of physics if you want to drive it well.

There has never been a more exciting time to study the exciting discipline of physics, spanning the workings of the sub-atomic world to the ever-expanding universe. The BS Physics Program in the ...