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

A team of international physicists has brought Bayes’ centuries-old probability rule into the quantum world. By applying the ...

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

Quantum versions of Bayes’ rule have been around for decades, but the approach through the minimum change principle had not ...

Thinking about science and technology in terms of return on investment misses the point. Here’s what kids really need to know ...

We obviously can’t put the universe on a giant set of scales, but scientists have found astonishingly clever ways to […] ...

The other day I received a letter from a friend. My love for letters is very old. These magical spacetime capsules bring in thoughts of a person written in a different location about a different ...

"With these probability maps, we can push asteroids away while preventing them from returning on an impact trajectory, ...

Body mass index, or BMI for short, is a measure of body weight based on your height. For decades, BMI has been a way to measure whether someone is at a healthy weight. In general, people are ...

It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometres of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal ...