For nearly a hundred years, every known particle in the universe belonged to one of two camps. Bosons, like photons, can ...

If you could take an apple and break it into smaller and smaller parts, you would find molecules, then atoms, followed by ...

A link between particle physics and gravity equations, called the double copy, applies to Hawking radiation, creating a new ...

While investigating how string theory can be used to explain certain physical phenomena, scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have stumbled upon on a new series representation for the ...

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. But in his ...

Referred to as a “founding father of modern mathematical physics” by those who knew his work, the University’s Thomas D. Jones Professor Emeritus Arthur Wightman GS ’49 died of Alzheimer’s disease on ...

“The Impossible Man,” by Patchen Barss, depicts the British mathematical physicist and Nobelist Sir Roger Penrose in all his iconoclastic complexity. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...

In the fall of 1915, the foundations of physics began to crack. Einstein’s new theory of gravity seemed to imply that it should be possible to create and destroy energy, a result that threatened to ...

Black holes have a problem that physicists still cannot explain. According to Stephen Hawking’s ...

Modern physicists are concerned with the infinitely large—the universe—and the indefinitely small—the electron. Accepted key to the puzzle of the universe is Einstein’s theory of relativity. Crux of ...

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. – Carl Frederick Gauss (1777–1855), German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist God ever geometrizes. – Plato (c ...