The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper ...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic ...

Researchers at the University at Buffalo have enhanced a computationally efficient technique referred to as the truncated ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

The world’s best clocks may be sensitive to an odd mix of quantum and relativistic effects that would stretch time and test ...

As scientists get closer to putting humans on Mars, the need to understand why clocks tick faster on the red planet is more ...

This Star Trek concept ignited a dream that humans could one day travel faster than the speed of light. Now physicists are ...

You don’t need to be a scientist to enjoy quantum physics books—many are written for regular readers. Books like ‘How to ...

Newspaper headlines are often filled with global issues such as climate change and the greenhouse effect, which naturally raise questions like: How can we model ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis were recognized for work that made behaviors of the subatomic realm ...

For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like — an optical ...