“If you remember, Mark Twain once said, ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’ If you use statistics in an improper way, you could get pretty much any result,” says Greg ...

Taken from the September 2021 issue of Physics World where it first appeared under the headline "Physics for biological breakthroughs". It might not sound like an obvious place for a physicist to work ...

Occupational transition network Graphical visualization of the weighted and directed labour market network in France derived from the transition probability matrix, computed from data spanning 2012 to ...

As part of our Essential Textbooks in Physics series, the third volume of Application-Driven Quantum and Statistical Physics, is not one to miss. If you are a student craving an alternative approach ...

The introduction of probability into the fundamental nature of the quantum world by Bohr, Born and Schrödinger in the 1920s famously perplexed some scholars of science's philosophical foundations. But ...

What is and is not possible for natural evolution may be explained using models and calculations from theoretical physics, say researchers. To explain this the limits of evolution, researchers ...

Data analysis and machine learning are finding applications in many fields of fundamental sciences, and theoretical physics is no exception. My group at the Institut de Physique Théorique (IPhT) ...

A program that focuses on the major topics, concepts, processes, and interrelationships of physical phenomena as studied in any combination of physical science disciplines. A general program that ...