With a background in applied mathematics, he had not planned to work in physics until stumbling upon "The Feynman Lectures on ...

A decade after the discovery of the “amplituhedron,” physicists have excavated more of the timeless geometry underlying the ...

But at a very young age, I also read that “energy is always conserved”, according to physics. This baffled me. If nature automatically conserves energy, why would human efforts to do so be needed?

In the 1962 Massey Lectures, Northrop Frye writes: "What good is the study of literature? Does it help us to think more clearly or feel more sensitively or live a better life than we would without it?

This collection of surveys on current algebra and anomalies is a successor volume to Lectures on Current Algebra ... QED and the Men Who Made It: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga S. S. Schweber ...

Two pioneers of artificial intelligence—John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton—won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is ...

Researchers have developed a method to model a central theory of quantum gravity in the laboratory. Their goal: to decipher previously unexplained phenomena in the quantum world. Gravity is no ...

As they take up their new role, each professor at the University of Helsinki holds a public inaugural lecture. Inaugural lectures are held twice a year close to the end of each term, usually in May ...

The culling of lectures is part of the “Adelaide Attainment Model,” a slimming program that will see trimesters introduced by 2028. It satisfies a “modular” fetish – the world of ...

In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast we explore two related areas of physics, statistical physics and thermodynamics. First up we have two leading lights in statistical physics who ...

“Everesting” involves a cyclist riding up and down a given hill multiple times until the ascent totals the elevation of Mount Everest – or 8848 m. The challenge became popular during the COVID-19 ...

Oct. 7, 2024 — Unearthing new LEDs, solar cells, and photodetectors requires extensive knowledge surrounding the optical properties of materials. Calculating these takes time and resources. Yet ...