Time feels like the most familiar thing in the world, yet it hides one of physics’ hardest questions: why do we only remember ...

Physicists are exploring whether hidden dimensions and the shape of space could help explain why fundamental particles have ...

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More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his astonishing formulas for π in notebooks in India and England, ...

Researchers at TU Wien have developed a one-dimensional “quantum wire” using a gas of ultracold atoms. In this system, both ...

A classic math rule now handles infinity. New work strengthens the math behind physics and unbounded systems. % ...

Yosra Barkaoui’s doctoral dissertation in mathematics at the University of Vaasa, Finland, has successfully generalised a fundamental theorem that has been limited to the bounded case. The research ...

Here's how the astronomical phenomenon influences our planet—from the length of our seasons to the way Earth moves through ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...