Jay Tonai-Moore is a West Australian university student working with Sites4Good to build websites for Australian charities to help them reach the people who need their message. He is this weeks Pro ...

Scientists have long embraced the fact that forces beyond sight govern the universe. Dark matter, they think, holds galaxies together with extra gravity, and dark energy drives the universe’s ...

Differential equations are fundamental tools in physics: they are used to describe phenomena ranging from fluid dynamics to general relativity. But when these equations become stiff (i.e. they involve ...

Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) have developed a new framework based on machine learning ...

The predictions that Trump alluded to in his speech last week are usually made using climate models, computer programs that ...

Long-term weather forecasting is a difficult task, partly because weather systems are inherently chaotic. Though mathematical ...

For centuries, scientific progress has depended on more precise tools for measuring the world around us. Galileo’s telescope ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Childs has been recognised for his contributions to quantum simulation and Hamiltonian dynamics. His work has focused on developing fast quantum algorithms for simulating Hamiltonian dynamics, which ...

I’ve always had a thing for the moon. I ­remember car trips returning from evenings spent with family friends, a sleepy little kid in the back seat, head tilted, looking through the rear window to try ...

In January I wrote a piece titled “ 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know .” Lots of you weighed in with your own ...

The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving some mathematical graffiti into Dublin's Broome Bridge in 1843.