From the early days of quantum mechanics, scientists have thought that all particles can be categorized into one of two ...

In the quantum world, the universe plays by rules so strange that even its smallest building blocks often defy intuition. Now ...

The Futurama Theorem appears in the episode “ The Prisoner of Benda ,” which aired in 2010 during the show’s sixth season. In ...

Mathematicians at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) are developing a new approach to detect cancer early ...

This course addresses a number of important mathematical methods often used in physics. Central topics are basic complex analysis, variational calculus, differential equations, Fourier series and ...

Done well, smallness can be an asset, even with the more limited services and staff. Whereas a counselor might be critical in ...

Overall, across all schools, men earned degrees in these fields at 4.4 times the rate for women in 2022, a slight improvement from the 4.6 rate in 2002. This rate is very different from the near ...

A new study, relying on the “many worlds interpretation” of quantum mechanics—along with a concept known as “decoherent ...

The new technique, called Coadjoint Orbit FLIP (CO-FLIP), improves upon existing Fluid Implicit Particles (FLIP) methods by preserving two key physical properties of fluid motion: energy and ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Jessica Yung and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about the physics of hula hooping, why some vaccines last longer than others, and a few moon launches to watch for in 2025.

A team of scientists has developed a groundbreaking technique for improving quantum computing efficiency. By innovatively ...