Physicists

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest…

The coat of arms of Italy’s aristocratic House of Borromeo contains an unsettling symbol: an arrangement of three…

Our universe started with a bang that blasted everything into existence. But what happened next is a mystery.…

Physicists have coaxed particles of light into undergoing opposite transformations simultaneously, like a human…

Three scientists jointly won this year's Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their work on quantum information…

Once found, these inscrutable rules have helped particle physicists calculate scattering amplitudes at much higher…

Imagine that you have just arrived on a planet in another solar system. Suddenly, five minutes after you landed,…

Sound waves can also steer objects inside organisms. Daniel Ahmed, an engineer at ETH Zurich in Switzerland,…

Blowing soap bubbles never fails to delight one's inner child, perhaps because bubbles are intrinsically ephemeral,…

(Image credit: Adrienne Bresnahan/Getty Images)A physics problem that has plagued science since the days of Isaac…