The Big Ideas: What Is Reality? Effective theories in physics can help us measure and examine reality, despite the many things we do not yet know. By Lisa Randall Dr. Randall is a physicist. This ...

Interpretations In his new book of essays, David Kaiser explores quantum physics from a scientific, historical, economic and philosophical standpoint. (Courtesy: iStock/Pobytov) Both a physicist and a ...

Classical physics is characterized by the equations describing the world. Yet our day-to-day experience is struck by this deterministic vision of the world. A physicist has been analyzing the ...

In 1964, physicist John Bell formulated what became known as Bell's Theorem, showing that if quantum mechanics is correct, ...

Quantum mechanics describes the weird behavior of microscopic particles. Using quantum systems to perform computation ...

What if intelligence isn't one thing, but two curious dimensions—and AI just revealed the hidden rift we never knew existed?

Now there is a conundrum we can struggle with in the dead of night. But it is one that Brian Greene is actually equipped to try to answer in his latest book, Until the End of Time. Greene, director of ...

In the 1950's, a particle physicist made a landmark discovery that changed what was known about how the universe operates. Chien-Shiung Wu did it while raising a family and an ocean away from her ...

UC Berkeley emeritus professor John Clarke, UC Santa Barbara professor Michel H. Devoret and UC Santa Barbara professor John ...