Why This Universe? Maybe It’s Not Special—Just Probable
Two physicists find that our universe has a higher entropy—and is therefore more likely—than alternative possible universes. ..
Two physicists find that our universe has a higher entropy—and is therefore more likely—than alternative possible universes. ..
In this cartoon world built to teach concepts from Randall Munroe’s book What If? 2, you can fly a rocket around randomly—or explore the physics of an alternate ..
Using the giant Virgo interferometer in Tuscany, researchers are recording gravitational waves created by interstellar cataclysms as they wash through ..
Maintenance of FORM, the 1980s software that’s used for the field's hardest calculations, rests almost entirely with one septuagenarian physicist. ..
Schools adapted to remote learning, but students also got used to seeking easy answers instead of real understanding. ..
For more than 250 years, mathematicians have wondered if the Euler equations might sometimes fail to describe a fluid’s flow. Now there’s a breakthrough. ..
The past and future are tightly linked in conventional quantum mechanics. A tweak could let quantum possibilities increase as space expands. ..
An experiment at the Large Hadron Collider suggests there’s a chance of catching this elusive evidence as it floats through our galactic neighborhood. ..
US nuclear scientists have achieved the long-sought goal of a fusion ignition—but don't expect this clean technology to power the grid yet. ..
Physicists study starlight to find whether the fine structure constant, whose value makes our universe possible, really is the same everywhere. ..