A group of Brazilian researchers has presented an innovative proposal to resolve a decades-old debate among theoretical physicists: How many...
String theory, conceptualized more than 50 years ago as a framework to explain the formation of matter, remains elusive as...
When analyzing artworks, understanding the visual clarity of compositions is crucial. Inspired by digital artists, Okinawa Institute of Science and...
Assuming dark matter exists, its interactions with ordinary matter are so subtle that even the most sensitive instruments cannot detect...
The search for quantum gravity has gone on for 100 years, but it is not the only unification challenge in...
Ultra-high energy cosmic rays, which emerge in extreme astrophysical environments—like the roiling environments near black holes and neutron stars—have far...
For the first time, scientists have observed a collection of particles, also known as a quasiparticle, that’s massless when moving...
Nuclear theorists at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory have successfully employed a new theoretical approach to calculate the...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
It’s easy to think that machine learning is a completely digital phenomenon, made possible by computers and algorithms that can...
‘We live in a universe that is just right for us’: Study proposes a test for the Anthropic Principle
The Anthropic Principle—stating that the universe we live in is fine-tuned to host life—was first proposed by Brandon Carter in...
An interdisciplinary collaboration between condensed-matter, quantum-optics and particle physicists has the potential to crack the search for low-mass dark matter....
