A 1930s-era breakthrough is helping physicists understand how quantum threads could weave together into a holographic ...
A decade after the discovery of the “amplituhedron,” physicists have excavated more of the timeless geometry underlying the ...
Until his dying days, the giant of 20th-century physics obsessed over the underpinnings of space and time, and how we can all ...
Curious connections between physics and math suggest to Latham Boyle that space-time may survive the jump to the next theory ...
The philosopher Karen Crowther digs into how the space-time fabric could possibly emerge from something non-spatiotemporal.
A black hole formula worked out in the 1970s remains the most concrete clue physicists have about the threads of the ...
In one perspective, physicists see a two-dimensional universe that is flat. In an equivalent, “dual” view, they see what they ...
Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system — even between ...
Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A surprisingly simple ...
The Industrial Revolution brought us the laws of thermodynamics, and new ideas about work, energy and efficiency. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with theoretical physicist Nicole ...