Soon after it was released a few short years ago, I began to delve into Steven Wolfram's new book, "A Fundamental Theory of Physics." I have followed his work since the early '90s when I first used ...

Science advances by overturning theories, replacing them by better ones. Sometimes the old theories continue to serve as valuable approximations, as with Newton’s laws of motion. Sometimes the older ...

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the ...

Reviewed Work: Quantum Field Theory I: Basics in Mathematics and Physics. A Bridge between Mathematicians and Physicists by Eberhard Zeidler ...

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

Three decades ago, a British documentary series named Connections aired, which showed viewers how various scientific achievements and discoveries were really interrelated, no matter how disparate they ...

It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A broad new method can help settle this ancient question. In June 1978, the ...

U.C. Berkley mathematician Frenkel reveals the joy of pure intellectual discovery in this autobiographical story of determination, passion, and the Langlands program—a sort of “Grand Unified Field ...