Physics major Robyn Schwartz is getting a jump start on her senior capstone project this summer, and it’s leading her deeper into the quantum world, the realm of molecules, atoms and subatomic ...

Two pioneers in the field of quantum optics have won the 2012 Nobel prize for physics. Serge Haroche, from the Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and David Wineland, who ...

THE term 'Introduction' applied to a text-book on a branch of physics gives little idea of the standard and scope of the work. Those who are familiar with the customary method of teaching optics will ...

Damaging effects We now live in an increasingly urban world, with cities expanding into megacities that are inflicting terrible damage to the environment. (Courtesy: iStock/Daniel Stein) The world is ...

IT was (Ji surprise to read in Dr. Cosslett's preface that a course of lectures in electron optics has seen given in the honours physics course at Oxford since 1942; yet the surprise was unwarranted ...