A new theory-based approach provides access to the minute transverse motion of quarks within protons. Nuclear physicists have developed a new theoretical framework that allows them to calculate a ...

Physics can feel inscrutable to students; this lesson helps them understand a graphing problem by analyzing their own ...

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

Two recent studies published in Nature and Science Advances explored quantum approaches that could improve the precision of ...

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find aliens.

Machine learning models are designed to take in data, to find patterns or relationships within those data, and to use what ...

Scientists at TU Wien found that electrons need specific “doorway states” to escape solids, not just energy. The insight ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the ...

Is there anything more dramatic than an exploding star? More than just extraordinarily bright, energetic events that can ...

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

The early modern physicist Isaac Newton had presumed an unperceived yet real flow of time. To Newton, time is a dynamic ...

Some time travel movies totally miss the mark and create plot holes, while others get the science absolutely right.