Columnist Natalie Wolchover examines the latest developments in the “forever war” over whether string theory can describe the ...

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AIP and APS are honored to award Charles Thorn with the 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics. Thorn is being ...

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The Australian Youth Orchestra brings music, maths and science together at the World Science Festival, revealing how patterns ...

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Experimental physicists study the strong force; string theorists try to calculate its effects. Together, they are finding common ground, where string theory can be applied to the physics of ...

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Saturday is Pi Day, a national celebration of the mathematical concept, which is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its ...

Astrid Eichhorn spends her days thinking about how the laws of physics change at the tiniest scales. Imagine zooming in closer and closer to the device on which you’re reading this article. Its ...

A ruling by the court’s conservative majority could invalidate state laws that allow ballots postmarked by Election Day to be ...