For instance, one of the biggest puzzles in physics is the black hole information paradox. In the 1970s, Stephen Hawking ...

Nature Research Intelligence Topics Topic summaries Mathematical Sciences Mathematical Physics Mathematical Aspects of Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Theory Over the ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

Physicists have long treated space and time as the stage on which quantum particles perform, not as actors in the drama ...

Quantum mechanics and relativity are the two pillars of modern physics. However, for over a century, their treatment of space ...

Quantum mechanics remains a cornerstone of modern physics, providing a framework for understanding phenomena at the microscopic scale. At the heart of its formulation lies the concept of Hilbert ...

On the morning of June 28, 1914, a Bosnian Serb student named Gavrilo Princip stood outside Moritz Schiller’s delicatessen near the Latin Bridge in Sarajevo. Sometime after 10:45 A.M., a motorcade ...

Quantum computing is slowly entering the mainstream, as more people discuss the technology and its potential within ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, considered one of the world’s most eminent theoretical physicists and a pioneer in modern quantum theory, will join Purdue University President ...

The year was 1900 and Max Planck was a young physicist working on the problem of blackbody radiation. This was an intense area of research because the experimental data—the radiation emitted by ...

A new study enhances hydrogen molecule predictions, achieving unprecedented precision in testing fundamental physics and ...