New calculation of viral spread based on branching process theory suggests that rapid elimination of SARS-CoV-2-like viruses ...

WASHINGTON, March 21, 2023 – AIP has selected Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou as the winner of the 2023 John Torrence Tate Medal for International Leadership in Physics. The Tate Medal, named after the ...

“The Impossible Man,” by Patchen Barss, depicts the British mathematical physicist and Nobelist Sir Roger Penrose in all his iconoclastic complexity. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...

PASADENA, Calif. — Hirosi Ooguri, the Kavli Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, is a corecipient of the first ever Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and ...

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

Freeman Dyson, one of the last great theoretical physicists of the WWII era, who walked the Princeton grounds alongside the likes of Einstein and Oppenheimer, died last Friday at 96. Dyson’s career ...

A Stony Brook University physics professor will share the 2024 Breakthrough Prize for fundamental physics, it was announced this week. The Breakthrough Prize, nicknamed the Oscars of Science, is the ...

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti.

New research from a CU Boulder physicist might break open the mathematical puzzle that has stalled string theory research for decades A University of Colorado Boulder physicist is one step closer to ...

A physicist has proposed a radical solution to the question of how a charged particle, such as an electron, responded to its own electromagnetic field. This question has challenged physicists for over ...

Modern physicists are concerned with the infinitely large—the universe—and the indefinitely small—the electron. Accepted key to the puzzle of the universe is Einstein’s theory of relativity. Crux of ...

Quantum thermal machines are devices that leverage quantum mechanical effects to convert energy into useful work or cooling, ...