If there is one thing that absolutely ruins my mood before coffee, it is stepping into the kitchen and immediately clocking a sad, skidding pet bowl shoved halfway under the cabinet. You know the one.

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

Abstract: In electric railway systems, the interaction performance of pantograph-catenary systems (PCS) is essential for ensuring a stable electrical supply. Establishing high-fidelity numerical ...

Several MBTA Commuter Rail trains were canceled Monday morning due to a range of issues, the agency announced in social media posts. Two Worcester Line trains — Train 505, scheduled to leave South ...

In 1900, mathematician David Hilbert presented his colleagues with a list of problems he believed both captured the present state of mathematics and the shape of its future. This year, 125 years later ...

On October 8, 2024, the field of physics was plunged into controversy. That day, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for discoveries not involving black holes, cosmology, or strange new subatomic ...

Violinist and composer Hannah Epperson, pictured, will partner with dancer and choreographer Rebecca Margolick on “Catenary.” Rebecca Margolick and Hannah Epperson's "Catenary" explores the ...

Prize awarded for developing 'next generation of quantum technology' 'I'm completely stunned,' says UC Berkeley professor Quantum technology ubiquitous in everyday electronics Physics is second prize ...

On Tuesday the field of quantum mechanics received a thoughtful 100th-birthday present from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: three shiny new medals, 11 million Swedish kronor (to be divided ...

UC Santa Barbara physicists John Martinis and Michel Devoret have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. Selected for the honor alongside UC Berkeley physicist and former advisor John Clarke, ...

All three winners of today’s 2025 Nobel Prize in physics are faculty at the University of California. The Nobel Prize committee honored John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the ...