From growing up in a Kolkata shaped by legends like Satyendra Nath Bose to winning the $3 million Breakthrough Prize, ...

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

Dimensions beyond the four we’re familiar with could solve a host of problems in physics and cosmology. Columnist Leah Crane ...

The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than ...

Pushed down to a certain scale, the laws of physics seem to fall apart. Astrid Eichhorn, a leader in an area of study called asymptotic safety, thinks we just need to push a little further.

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

Physicists have long struggled to unite quantum mechanics—the theory governing tiny particles—with Einstein’s theory of gravity, which explains the behavior of stars, planets, and the structure of the ...

DNC Chair Ken Martin has a plan to return Democrats to power, but he needs to keep the party from tearing itself apart first ...

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