Physicists have long struggled to unite quantum mechanics—the theory governing tiny particles—with Einstein’s theory of ...

Physicists have discovered a surprising new “Island of Inversion” in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number ...

Numerical relativity uses supercomputers to simulate conditions occuring at the start of the universe, answering some of the ...

Neutrinos are the second most abundant particles in the universe, passing completely unnoticed through matter. Particle physicist Melissa Uchida explores how these tiny particles could help us ...

Restricting a strange class of particles known as anyons to one dimension could force them into adopting one of two new forms ...

Mathematicians achieve a milestone in verifying the sphere-packing problem solution using Lean, enhancing proof reliability and formalisation efforts.

Blizzards are a real-life example of what game theorists call the “snowdrift problem,” a cousin of the prisoner’s dilemma that offers clues into why we choose to cooperate ...

Particle never before seen on Earth detected; it could come from a primordial black hole and the origin of the universe.

A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa student-led team has developed a new algorithm to help scientists determine direction in complex two-dimensional (2D) data, with potential applications ranging from ...

The Sun unleashes a torrent of charged particles. Some of them slam into the Earth’s atmosphere, triggering breathtaking auroras in the night sky. But for equipment that’s orbiting our planet in outer ...

Cosmic rays are extremely fast, charged particles that travel through space at nearly the speed of light. The Amaterasu particle was detected in 2021 by the Telescope Array experiment in the U.S. It ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...