Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

By bringing the long-standing and opposing views of quantum mechanics together to form a single cohesive theory, a research ...

An old puzzle in particle physics has been solved: How can quantum field theories be best formulated on a lattice to ...

The ice in a domestic freezer is remarkably different from the single crystals that form in snow clouds, or even those formed ...

Mind = blown.

One of the most striking outcomes of the surface-minimization framework is its ability to explain structural features that ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

While popular AI models such as ChatGPT are trained on language or photographs, new models created by researchers from the ...

An obscure theory of elementary particles proved to be key to China’s re-emergence as a scientific nation after the Cultural ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other.

Electrons are usually described as particles, but in a rare quantum material, that picture completely breaks down ...