Peter Millington is a Senior Research Fellow in the Particle Theory Group at the University of Manchester, UK, where he holds a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship and a Royal Society ...

Mathematical formulas written over a hundred years ago could find an echo in the most current theories about black holes and ...

Ramanujan’s insights into pi are now guiding scientists toward a deeper understanding of how the universe works.

It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is described extremely well by quantum theory, while the world of gravitation ...

David Lyth receives funding from the STFC. Gravity ties our bodies to planet Earth but it does not define the limits of the soaring human mind. In November 1915 – exactly one century ago – this was ...

To unify the four forces of nature, physicists are turning to Lie groups, an approach famously resurrected in 2007 by a surfer-dude theorist Turning the clock back by half a century could be the key ...

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Dear 13.7 readers, today I'm very happy to introduce you to Prof. David Kaiser, who is the head of the Program in Science, Technology, And Society (STS) at MIT. He is an accomplished historian of ...

Thomas Hertog tells us how he collaborated with Stephen Hawking on his final theorem — a Darwinian revolution in physics that explains the origin of time. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Knots are everywhere—from tangled headphones to DNA strands packed inside viruses—but how an isolated filament can knot ...