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 system—like the orbit of planets.

Gravity, the force that attracts objects toward each other, is currently framed by Albert Einstein's theory of general ...

Physicists and instrument makers in Leiden have succeeded in optimizing a spring that almost completely filters out ...

At just twelve years old, Aiden McMillan has built a working nuclear fusion device in his family home in Dallas, Texas. He spent four years researching and assembling the machine, then confirmed ...

Artificial intelligence can solve complex scientific problems beyond human capabilities, but the resulting solutions offer little insight into the underlying physical principles. One prominent example ...

Lithium-Ion Batteries (LIBs) are widely deployed across various domains, including electric vehicles (EVs), renewable energy storage, aerospace systems, and portable electronics, owing to their high ...

Numerov’s numerical method is developed in a didactic way by using Python in its Jupyter Notebook version 6.0.3 for three different quantum physical systems: the hydrogen atom, a molecule governed by ...

This repository contains code for the paper A Neural Symbolic Model for Space Physics. If you encounter any problems with this program, please contact Jie Ying yingj24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn. A ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin ...