Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later, her insights ...

In 2024, a research team claimed to have used a quantum computer to break a core part of internet security, RSA encryption, ...

An Isipingo high school unveiled its new digital science centre, with the hopes of enhancing the learning experience for maths and science.

What is the deepest level of reality? In this Quanta explainer, Vijay Balasubramanian, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, takes us on a journey through space-time to investigate what it’s ...

Mathematics and physics are closely interlinked subjects, with each providing many fascinating insights into the other. Students on this programme receive a thorough mathematical training and may also ...

This MSci offers an additional year of study on top of the Mathematics with Mathematical Physics BSc, during which students have the opportunity to specialise further by taking more advanced modules, ...

Mathematics and physics have long been regarded as the ultimate languages of the universe, but what if their structure ...

Ah, the poor calculator: so plain, yet so essential, like the Swiss Army knife of the academic world. The thing is, as I have now learned, not all calculators are created equal. So let me now take you ...

In this post and the next, I want to try out a new idea and see where it leads. It goes back to where magnitude began, which was the desire to unify elementary counting formulas like the ...

The new building’s classrooms and labs will host 326 courses for chemistry, biology, physics, and engineering students. Shirley McManus, dean of the college’s Math, Science and Engineering ...

Topological insulators (TIs) are among the hottest topics in condensed matter physics today. They're a bit strange: Their surfaces conduct electricity, yet their interiors do not, instead acting ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead suggesting giant voids in space are creating an illusion. When you ...