Laurent Simons, a 15-year-old Belgian researcher, has earned a PhD in quantum physics and says his work in ultracold systems ...

A Belgian teenager has become one of the youngest individuals in modern history to complete a PhD in quantum physics. But for A 15-year-old has just earned a PhD in quantum physics—and that’s only the ...

MIT physicist Nuno Loureiro, a rising leader in fusion research, was tragically killed in 2025 after groundbreaking work in ...

A quarter of a century ago, Claudio Neves Valente was briefly enrolled as a promising young doctoral student in the physics ...

In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence ...

Portuguese physicist Nuno Loureiro, the director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology ’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center ...

In] any piece of beautiful mathematics, you almost always find that there is a physical system which actually mirrors the ...

Physicists have found a clever way to detect the elusive Unruh effect without extreme accelerations. By using atoms that emit light cooperatively between mirrors, acceleration subtly shifts when a ...

The MIT fusion professor's suspected murderer, Claudio Neves Valent,e was found dead in a storage unit. Plenty of questions remain.

The suspect, who was found dead in a storage unit, attended Brown in the early 2000s and studied in Portugal with the M.I.T.

The text is now best known for introducing “Pascal’s Law” or “Principle,” that any change of pressure in an enclosed incompressible fluid (like water) is transmitted equally to all points within the ...

Moon-Ho Jo, director of the IBS Center for Van der Waals Quantum Solids in Korea, tells Physics World how breakthroughs in ...