Thinking at cosmic and subatomic scales requires plenty of math—or some visual metaphors.

He applies the logic he has used all his life in physics, such as cumulative probability, repeated risk, and system behavior, ...

In a major breakthrough, scientists have experimentally confirmed a universal growth law in two dimensions using a quantum ...

Tenets of quantum mechanics and special relativity, among other theoretical ideas, lead inexorably to string theory.

The muon mismatch was caused by calculation limits, not a new force. Improved methods bring theory and experiment into close ...

Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have uncovered new hints that certain particle decays may not behave as the ...

For almost a century, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle has stood as one of the defining ideas of quantum physics: a particle's position and momentum cannot be known at the same time with absolute ...

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