A 1930s-era breakthrough is helping physicists understand how quantum threads could weave together into a holographic ...

Until his dying days, the giant of 20th-century physics obsessed over the underpinnings of space and time, and how we can all ...

A decade after the discovery of the “amplituhedron,” physicists have excavated more of the timeless geometry underlying the ...

Curious connections between physics and math suggest to Latham Boyle that space-time may survive the jump to the next theory ...

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 ...

The philosopher Karen Crowther digs into how the space-time fabric could possibly emerge from something non-spatiotemporal.

Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A surprisingly simple ...