Using just a few equations, scientists can describe the motion of a ball flying through the air and the pull of a magnet, and forecast eclipses of the moon. The mathematical study of the motion of ...

“Quantum mechanics is a difficult theory, the history of which is even more difficult.” Such is not the conclusion, but the starting point of a study by Olivier Darrigol, in which he sets out to give ...

Scientists usually have an uncomfortable time coping with the concept of infinity. Over the past century, physicists have had a particularly difficult relationship with the notion of boundlessness. In ...

Richard Webb, considering the proposition “You are a physics genius”, writes: “our physics engine is programmed with the equations of classical mechanics” (10 December 2016, p 28). It is highly ...

Physicists have taken quantum strangeness to an extraordinary new level by measuring light across 37 dimensions. Their groundbreaking experiment pushes quantum mechanics beyond classical expectations, ...