The supercollider is now being used to explore quantum phenomena, including a “magic” form of quantum entanglement.

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in ...

The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ...

Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important ...

The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by ...

Rachel Nuwer is a freelance science journalist based in Brooklyn. Her latest book is I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World.

Encouraged by successes in understanding black holes, theoretical physicists are applying what they’ve learned to whole ...

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 ...

Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of the theory into a new era of inquiry. “Anomalous” heat flow, which at first ...

Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out the subtle signals that could reveal if the universe has a shape.

The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ripple across an ecosystem. The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet ...