Paul Ehrenfest was one of the most brilliant yet tragic figures in modern physics. A close friend and collaborator of Albert Einstein, he helped shape the foundations of quantum theory and statistical ...

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

In the quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe, physicists are revisiting a 150-year-old theory that could illuminate ...

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

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 ...

Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen Ning Yang, a key figure in modern physics, has died in Beijing at 103 ...

Breakthrough from Princeton team reveals exotic quantum state that coherently blends many-body correlation and quantum ...

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

CERN's new supercollider will be 8 times more powerful than the LHC, the largest and most powerful in the world. Physicists could use it to solve mysteries about the nature of our universe. Based on ...

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