Physics

The quest to detect neutrinos has physicists—and society—asking hard questions.

From the first cells to unique minds, in the editor’s note from Print Issue 46.

I now realize Heisenberg and Schrödinger are less like physicists and more like therapists.

This year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics were driven by curiosity, skill, and tenacity.

When it comes to physics, says Sean Carroll, you need the math.

Trying to answer a silly question can take you through some serious science.

The key to understanding the origin and fate of the universe may be a more complete understanding of the vacuum.

Alien communication could utilize quantum physics, so SETI needs a new way to listen.

Three computer scientists have posted a proof of the NLTS conjecture, showing that systems of entangled particles can remain difficult to analyze even away from extremes.

The origins of the universe may be hidden in the voids of space.

The same phenomenon by which an opera singer can shatter a wineglass also underlies the very existence of subatomic particles.

His teasing provoked me to understand the origins of time.

In the 1960s, drillers noticed that certain fluids would firm up if they flowed too fast. Researchers have finally explained why.

Scientists have never been able to adequately explain where lightning comes from. Now the first detailed observations of its emergence inside a cloud have exposed how electric fields grow strong enough to let bolts fly.

Julian Barbour’s ideas about time and the universe have always roamed free of academia.