Physics

Physicist Claudia de Rham on her 3 greatest revelations while writing The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity.

Forensics has reached the final frontier, and could be used to solve future space accidents—or crimes.

A new “post-quantum” theory of gravity says we can wave dark matter and dark energy goodbye.

Sarah Scoles on her 3 greatest revelations while writing Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons.

An exciting new theory reconciles gravity and quantum physics. I think it’s wrong. But I may be too.

A century ago, the Stern-Gerlach experiment established the truth of quantum mechanics. Now it could build a bridge between the two pillars of modern physics.

A conversation with “rational mystic,” physicist Marcelo Gleiser.

Something remarkable happens when this small sun zooms past its larger companion.

Time to rewrite our understanding of structural engineering.

Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus.

Physicist Alan Lightman on evolution and atheism, creativity and spirituality.

How a gravitational wave background re-opens the book on general relativity.

A new analysis argues that ubiquitous eruptions in the sun’s corona explain the vast flow of charged particles seen streaming out through the solar system.

If the electron’s charge wasn’t perfectly round, it could reveal the existence of hidden particles. A new measurement approaches perfection.

Richard Feynman’s path integral is both a powerful prediction machine and a philosophy about how the world is. But physicists are still struggling to figure out how to use it, and what it means.