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

Artificial intelligence has moved from crunching physics data in the background to actively proposing new theories and ...

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 on a frozen pond. As temperatures drop, ice crystals can grow in a variety ...

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

When molecular biologist Francis Crick tripped on the psychedelic drug LSD in 1953, his mind famously pulled together all of his previous research on human DNA to conceive of the image of a double ...

Mind = blown.

In this 2011 image, a NASA engineer looks on as the first six of the James Webb Space Telescope's 18 mirror segments are prepped to begin their final cryogenic testing. Engineers spent three decades ...

This puzzle is known as the problem of time, and it remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of ...

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

For decades, physicists have accepted that the universe has two sizes: small and large. So-called classical equations govern big objects like baseballs and galaxies, while quantum mechanics describes ...