Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang, who spent decades advancing physics in both the U.S. and China, died in Beijing on Saturday at ...

Deep under a mountain in Italy, researchers continue to push the boundaries of science with an experiment that could rewrite ...

Modern multiverse fiction incorporates real physics equations and string theory principles rather than relying on pure ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

Just as many of us are struck by the beauty of symmetrical patterns in nature and art, Chen-Ning Yang had a deep feeling for ...

Scientists have been using complicated, hypothetical particles to explain the Big Bang, but this theory posits that a simpler ...

If these knots had a slight bias toward matter over antimatter, their unraveling could help explain the matter-antimatter ...

In the quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe, physicists are revisiting a 150-year-old theory that could illuminate ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

Scientists have built the world’s smallest engine. It consists of a single microscopic particle, smaller than a human cell, ...

This balance—neurons as the silent bee workers, waves as the queen’s rhythm holding the hive together—suggests consciousness ...

MIT physicists developed a way to probe inside an atom’s nucleus, using the atom’s own electrons as “messengers” within a ...