Renowned mathematical physicist and Princeton University Thomas D. Jones Professor Emeritus Arthur Wightman died of Alzheimer's disease Jan. 13 at Veterans Nursing Home in Edison, N.J. He was 90. He ...

AIP recognizes mathematical physicist Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou with 2023 Tate Medal for International Leadership in Physics The medal was awarded to Hounkonnou for his efforts to build and ...

However, the problem with string theory is that it is so flexible that it can explain almost anything, making it nearly ...

A new study proposes that discovering a single exotic particle at the LHC could falsify string theory as we know it.

The celebrated mathematical physicist, then 87 and still two years away from winning the Nobel Prize, is in the kitchen preparing tea and biscuits. It’s a stereotypical English moment, ...

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 ...

Russian-born theoretical and mathematical physicist Alexander Zamolodchikov will share his award — and $3 million in prize money — with University of Oxford physicist John Cardy, with whom he ...

Alec Stokes, diffident, neglected but central author of the revolutionary work that revealed the double helix structure of DNA, published in Nature April 25, 1953, has died nearly 50 years later..

A theoretical physicist shut down the fears around AI saying it's just a "glorified tape recorder." Michio Kaku said chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT can't even distinguish true from false.

“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 ...

Without experiential evidence, the mathematical theory of space and time as a fourth dimension has remained just that since the days of Albert Einstein: a theory.