Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.Calculations involving a higher dimension are guiding physicists toward a misstep in Stephen Hawking’s legendary…

The plan for an artificial Martian magnetosphere may sound “fanciful,” but researchers say that emerging research is starting to show that a miniature magnetosphere can be used…

Philip Marcus, you might say, is obsessed with the solar system’s most famous storm. The computational physicist and professor in the mechanical engineering department at the University…

Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.The KATRIN experiment is closing in on the mass of the neutrino, which could point to new laws of particle physics…

Is our planet unique? The chances are slim. There are trillions of other galaxies, each of which has billions of suns. In a recent interview, Ed Young, a professor of geochemistry…

The young physicist sits at his computer, watching for signals from Cygnus. His name is Christopher Toth, and his white lab coat is too big for him. Christopher speaks with calm clarity.…

Different arrangements of words can be likened to microstates in statistical mechanics—the total set of ways a system’s constituent particles can be configured.Photo illustration…

Scientists should respect the limits of their discipline.Photo illustration by Triff / ShutterstockHave you heard that we may be living in a computer simulation? Or that our universe…

I remember buying my first hologram as a college student in the mid-1980s. It showed a bed of nails. I came across it at a gallery in what was then the world’s capital of spacey…

Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.Experimenters in Germany have glimpsed the kind of strange, non-atomic matter thought to fill the cores of merging…