University of Chicago physicist Clay Córdova has been named a recipient of the 2026 New Horizons in Physics Prize for his ...

A major obstacle in calculating the muon’s behavior is the strong force, the most powerful of the four fundamental forces, along with gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak force. It binds quarks ...

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Physicists have spent the last 20 years pondering an apparent discrepancy between experimental results and theoretical ...

Two UC Berkeley faculty, a UCLA physicist and a UC Santa Barbara Nobel laureate were awarded Breakthrough Foundation prizes ...

Once a baffling theory, quantum mechanics has evolved into a driving force behind modern technology and frontier research.

As LLM calculation skills advance, theoretical fields of science are reckoning with the possibility that they could be ...

A tiny discrepancy in particle physics has loomed for decades as an exciting possible crack in one of science’s most successful theories, hinting at unknown forces or quantum objects. Now, an ...

Medical scientists are stricter while natural, social and humanities scientists are more permissive. The attitude to ...

One scientist’s unorthodox method could finally explain where your “soul” goes when you die, precognition, and everything in ...

From birth to death, stars generally slow by 100 to 1,000 times their initial rotation rates; in other words, they "spin down ...

A new therapy has the potential to cure hundreds of diseases — and even reverse aging. Credit...Photo illustration by Kensuke ...