Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

The hybrid magnet at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory generates the world’s strongest continuous magnetic field at ...

From superstrings and black holes to dark matter and multiverses, modern theoretical physics revels in the bizarre. Now it’s wandered into the realm of “fairy-tale,” says science writer and former ...

A student in my freshman seminar class at Harvard University innocently asked me this week whether gravitational time dilation, as predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity, is relevant to ...

In empty space, quantum particles flit in and out of existence, electromagnetic fields permeate the vacuum, and space itself trembles with gravitational waves. What may seem like nothingness ...

In late 2008, a few onlookers believed that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) would bring the end of the world. Three years later, our planet remains intact, but the European particle smasher may have ...

If you can get beyond the overuse of “awesome” and its derivatives, this video asks some important questions about how physics is taught in US schools – and in many other countries around the world.

This post is in response to What Is Your Theory of the Person? By Gregg Henriques Ph.D. Time is the soil from which personality grows. To grasp the essence of personality, we must delve into the ...

IISc researchers reveal connections between Ramanujan's pi formulae and modern high-energy physics, enhancing calculations in ...