At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

Quantum oscillations are typically found in metals, but finding this same “electron wiggle” within the bulk of insulators is ...

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...

A recent experiment at Fermilab has delivered intriguing results that challenge standard predictions, adding fuel to the ...

Yet according to physics, information is never destroyed. In principle, a burned book is just as readable as the original—if ...

Kellogg Stelle was a professor of physics at Imperial College London for decades until his death last month. In 1977, he developed a particle theory of gravity that’s renormalizable, but the theory’s ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

Scientists in Greece have laid out a mathematical framework to help explain a so-far-unsolved gap in our understanding of how ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called "Is the end in sight for ...

Magazine explores the wild theory that Satoshi Nakamoto was a time-traveling AI sent back to build the perfect, unstoppable ...

If so, laws might change when the universe itself changes phase. In the early universe, as temperatures and densities shifted, forces split apart from a unified origin. What we call “laws” may be like ...

Philosophy of science treats knowledge as ever-evolving, rather than fixed in place. Scientific theories do not need to capture reality perfectly to be valuable; they need to work in context.