Paul Ehrenfest was one of the most brilliant yet tragic figures in modern physics. A close friend and collaborator of Albert ...

Tachyons are hypothetical particles that travel at speeds greater than the speed of light. These superluminal particles, are the “enfant terrible” of modern physics. Until recently, they were ...

Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang, who spent decades advancing physics in both the U.S. and China, died in Beijing on Saturday at ...

Breakthrough from Princeton team reveals exotic quantum state that coherently blends many-body correlation and quantum topology—two key concepts of modern quantum physics in a single material.

In this first selection of texts from the Wenner Collection, we will see some examples of the use of print to popularize and ...

Up until now, the simulation hypothesis, which has occasionally received backing from the likes of Elon Musk and Neil ...

Modern cellphones are also built on the work of today’s winners from 40 years ago.

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Scientist and physicist Ernest Rutherford, known as “the father of nuclear physics”, was the most respected Kiwi of his day.

Grief and heartfelt tributes flooded China's social media as the world learned of the passing on Saturday of renowned ...

BEIJING(AP) — Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen Ning Yang, one of the most influential scientists in modern physics, ...