Last week, I introduced Emmy Noether, an extraordinary figure in the fields of mathematics and physics. To understand Noether ...

How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a ...

Combining artificial intelligence with physical climate modelling enables more accurate characterization of rare weather ...

Time has always seemed like the one thing physics could count on. Matter changes, stars die, particles flicker in and out, ...

Today’s crossword reminds me of a conversation I had at the end of last year with Laurel Sutton, a linguist and professional ...

The Nobel Prize for Physics this year will be awarded to three scientists — John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Tuesday. The three worked ...

When checking that solutions to certain problems are correct, it turns out, you can’t get around the inherent complexity of ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

Werner Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle describes one of the most intriguing features of quantum physics: certain pairs of physical quantities describing a particle, such as position and ...

Modern physics theories highlight the key role of horizons—boundaries beyond which information cannot reach an observer—in a variety of cosmological and gravitational phenomena. Two renowned examples ...

Yang-Hui He is a fellow at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences in London, UK. Among mathematicians and theoretical physicists, artificial intelligence provokes a range of reactions. Some ...

People use their bodies—not just their brains—to think. So the MIT Project on Embodied Education brings movement to the ...