Steven Pinker’s new book When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows makes a compelling case for common knowledge. Shame the ...

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One possibility to explain the constants of nature is that there’s more than one universe. That we live in a multiverse, with ...

Caltech scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)–based method that dramatically speeds up calculations of ...

Science is a story of coming up with theories then doing our best to disprove them. That is especially true for theories on a ...

From Newton’s falling apple to Einstein’s curved spacetime, our understanding of gravity has come a long way, yet this ...

The speed of light, c, is not just a very large number. In modern physics it is a structural constant: the conversion factor ...

We often marvel at the genius of Albert Einstein, a physicist who revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Yet, even ...

On March 10, 2026, String Theory will welcome violinist Sasha Sitkovetsky, violist Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, cellist Gary ...

Streamers are building huge audiences by attacking academic physics as just another corrupt establishment. Scientists are starting to worry about the consequences.

Daniel Lentz, a noted composer with a global audience and reputation, died in Santa Barbara on July 25 of heart failure.

Understanding the universe's building blocks, the Standard Model categorizes particles and explains forces, yet leaves ...