In January I wrote a piece titled “ 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know .” Lots of you weighed in with your own ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

Electron-capture supernovae (ECSNe) are stellar explosions that occur in stars with initial masses around 8–10 times that of ...

A team at the University at Buffalo has made it possible to simulate complex quantum systems without needing a supercomputer.

Why do so many turn to quantum physics to explain mystical experiences? This post explores how Quantum Field Theory has ...

During the last couple of days, many readers and colleagues have urged me to write a follow-up to my earlier op-ed "Shaping ...

Phonons are indeed recognized as vibrations of the lattice that transport heat energy in solids. To contemplate on the idea ...

Most explanations rely on "dark energy" to explain the Universe's accelerating expansion rate, but a new study takes a different path.

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...