Seeking endorsements for her new book, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein finds herself staring at fundamental questions of space, time ...

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Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of ...

Few ideas in modern science have reshaped our understanding of reality more profoundly than space-time—the interwoven fabric of space and time at the heart of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.

Imagine a clock that doesn't have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity. In a new study, ...

A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

Textbooks give strange, imprecise explanations of where things happen in quantum mechanics. Consistency with gravity needs a fresh approach.

Recent progress on both analog and digital simulations of quantum fields foreshadows a future in which quantum computers ...

Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.” ...

This week, this enormous scientific facility, ten years in the making, will begin its hunt for the most elusive particles in ...

In a few weeks, most Americans will have to switch their clocks back one hour as daylight saving time ends and switches to ...

A decade in the making, this upgraded detector will explore the properties of the quark-gluon plasma that formed a millionth ...