Scientists say they have solved in detail what may be the most famous lawn-care-related problem in all of physics. The so-called Feynman sprinkler problem is named after one of the best-known ...

A new particle detector called PLATON could replace millions of tiny detector components with a single block of ...

In daily life, physics is straightforward. A tennis ball is either sitting on a table or not. A light is either on or off.

Researchers have developed an AI-driven framework that improves genomic surveillance by identifying emerging virus variants ...

Combinatorial optimization problems are encountered often in various real-world applications, including logistics, scheduling, and network design ...

Combinatorial optimization problems are often encountered in real-world applications, including logistics, scheduling and ...

Faculty of Science involved in several FUNIGE Grands Projets. Established in March 2025 with the support of the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation, the Fondation pour l’Université de Gen ...

Scientists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider may be seeing the strongest hints yet of physics beyond the Standard Model — the decades-old theory that explains the fundamental particles and ...

SEATTLE — Wildfire smoke is pushing the Seattle-Tacoma region into unfamiliar territory, with the area now ranking among the nation’s worst metropolitan areas for short-term particle pollution, ...

A weird force that skirts traditional physics norms has helped erase a smudge on the foundations of particle physics. It’s a phenomenon called the “neutrino force,” by which neutrinos could ...

Physicists just discovered a brand-new particle that appears to be an exotic cousin to the protons and neutrons that make up atoms. Those mundane subatomic particles are made up of even smaller ...