Physicists are quietly advancing a radical idea: time might not be a single, thin line but a full three‑dimensional landscape ...

Physicists are quietly testing an audacious idea: that the mass of everything around us might not come from an invisible ...

The theorized unseen structure of spacetime could also explain of the outstanding questions about the accelerating expansion of the universe.

One hundred twenty years after it was first discovered, mathematicians have successfully mapped out a 248-dimensional object called E8. The complete description of E8—one of the most complicated ...

Jason Lotay explains how mathematicians studying special geometries are collaborating with physicists to explore M-theory, an 11-dimensional description of the world that unifies the various string ...