Virtual particles exploit the natural fuzziness of the subatomic world, where if these ephemeral particles live briefly ...

He and a colleague created a sensation in 1956 by proposing that one of the four forces of nature might violate a law of ...

Penn Engineers have developed a mathematical "Rosetta Stone" that translates atomic and molecular movements into predictions ...

Nobel laureate physicist Chen Ning Yang, renowned for his work on parity laws and the Yang-Mills theory, has passed away in ...

Mathematical framework translates microscopic movements into large-scale behaviors, like proteins unfolding and crystals ...

In certain circumstances, losses create a sure path to victory, an idea with implications for biology and cancer therapy ...

This is an illustration from the preface of *Principles of Newtonian Philosophy*, co-authored in 1738 by French philosopher ...

Scientists discover all stalagmites growing from cave floors follow a mathematical rule that explains how these mineral ...

Researcher whose contribution to science was described as ‘close to Einstein’ specialised in the study of subatomic particles.

Chen Ning Yang was born in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, in 1922. In the 1940s, he went to the United States to pursue ...

Yang is credited with co-developing a theoretical framework that would later revolutionise modern physics known as Yang–Mills ...