Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of ...

Celebrating Isaac Newton, the genius who discovered gravity, laws of motion, optics, and invented calculus to understand the ...

Physics can feel inscrutable to students; this lesson helps them understand a graphing problem by analyzing their own ...

A new theory claims dark matter and dark energy don’t exist — they’re just side effects of the universe’s changing forces. By ...

Most people rarely experience the effects of dark matter in ordinary life. However, we live in an environment affected by ...

A rediscovered formula is changing how we understand the hidden journeys of airborne particles. Researchers at the University of Warwick have created a straightforward new way to predict how ...

The possibility that our entire universe merely exists inside a computer simulation is more than an idle science fiction ...

Does dark matter follow the same laws as ordinary matter? The mystery of this invisible and hypothetical component of our ...

Ordinary matter obeys four well-identified forces: gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak forces at the atomic level. But what about dark matter? Invisible and elusive, it could be subject ...

Host Ira Flatow will be joined by award-winning physicist Dr. Sean M. Carroll to discuss his book, “The Biggest Ideas in the ...