Now, artificial intelligence (AI) tools are providing powerful new ways to address long-standing problems in physics. “The ...

The 2026 Breakthrough Prize honored advances in dark matter, quantum physics, gene editing and nonlinear mathematics.

Researchers from Stanford and UC Berkeley are being celebrated like celebrities for advancing mathematics and developing ...

When you throw a ball in the air, the equations of classical physics will tell you exactly what path the ball will take as it ...

It’s the same math that explains how, under the right conditions, the atmosphere above a barren plain can produce a roiling ...

The cosmological constant has been a problem in physics since Einstein, but new research may show why it takes the value that ...

This article is the first part of a series about quantum field theory published by Quanta Magazine. Other stories in the series can be found here. Over the past century, quantum field theory has ...

Last month, six Cornell faculty members received the Simons Fellowship, which provides funding for a research leave. Three received the Theoretical Physics fellowship and three received the ...

The University of the Pacific recently hosted the annual Math Steeplechase. More than 1,000 students participated in the ...

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