Last year, an immense but brief outburst of seismic energy was soon followed by a long hum that made the world ring. Finding ...

Cell membranes from comb jellies reveal a new kind of adaptation to the deep sea: curvy lipids that conform to an ideal shape ...

An ultra-precise measurement of a transition in the hearts of thorium atoms gives physicists a tool to probe the forces that ...

What do the integers have in common with the symmetries of a triangle? In the 19th century, mathematicians invented groups as ...

Matt Strassler is a theoretical particle physicist, blogger and writer whose research often takes him to the Large Hadron Collider. He is the author of Waves in an Impossible Sea, a popular book about ...

Even empty space bubbles with energy, according to quantum mechanics — and that fact affects almost every facet of physical reality. The theoretical physicist Isabel Garcia Garcia explains to Steven ...

Using “refreshingly old” tools, mathematicians resolved a 50-year-old conjecture about how to categorize important functions called modular forms, with consequences for number theory and theoretical ...

Physicists are using quantum math to understand what happens when black holes collide. In a surprise, they’ve shown that a single particle can describe a collision’s entire gravitational wave. The ...

Physicists have ruled out a mundane explanation for the strange findings of an old Soviet experiment, leaving open the possibility that the results point to a new fundamental particle. Particle ...