Physics

A Nobel laureate maps his path to discovery.

Does space exist without objects, or is it made by them?

How we broke the world record in high-temperature superconductors.

The pressure it takes to break everything from raindrops to stars.

If our particles have no identity, how can we?

Say goodbye to stable orbits and knotted shoelaces.

The contest between gravity and quantum physics takes a new turn.

At small scales, gravity seems to blow up—but not if space becomes 1-D.