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 ...

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

A black hole formula worked out in the 1970s remains the most concrete clue physicists have about the threads of the ...

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

In one perspective, physicists see a two-dimensional universe that is flat. In an equivalent, “dual” view, they see what they ...

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

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 ...

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

Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system — even between ...