physics

Using physics to describe social phenomena can work—if it’s the right 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?

Portable slow-light technology could measure the speed of glaciers in real time.

Isaac Newton spurned social contact but also relied on it for his greatest work.

The Princeton physicist on what’s wrong with inflation theory and his view of the Big Bang.

How is it possible to get something from nothing?