In an interview with ThePrint, physicist Yogendra Narain Srivastava discusses his radical new theory of black holes and a ...

It is not the appearance or typographical structure that is prized, but the concepts it embodies and the unexpected links it ...

In episode 3 of 'What's in a name' we look at what can be lost in translation when physicists try and name the unknown.

General relativity is an astonishingly beautiful theory, and grappling with why it disagrees with quantum mechanics is a joy, ...

Give me a qubit for long enough and a probe in which to measure it, and I shall extract the geometry of our world.” ...

Sidney Perkowitz uncovers the pioneering work of the German physicist and philosopher Grete Hermann, who sparred with the ...

A team of Rice University researchers has developed a new way to control light interactions using a specially engineered structure called a 3D photonic-crystal cavity. Their work, published in the ...

In his biography “Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life,” Dan Nadel tries to tell the story of the “Mr. Natural” creator without sanding down the rough edges. In “Close to Home,” Thor Hanson ...

One of the first to arrive, in March 1943, was Richard Feynman, another New Yorker ... The scientists’ minds were crammed with physics problems and moral questions. “I had many sleepless ...

Boston Globe via Getty Images In her new book, Knocking on Heaven's Door, Harvard University theorist Lisa Randall explores how physics may transform our understanding of the fundamental nature of ...

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