Last week, I introduced Emmy Noether, an extraordinary figure in the fields of mathematics and physics. To understand Noether ...
How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a system—like the orbit of planets.
Time has always seemed like the one thing physics could count on. Matter changes, stars die, particles flicker in and out, ...
While most time travel movies ignore quantum physics, Christopher Nolan's Intersteller, Avengers: Endgame, Planet of the Apes ...
In November 2025, Airbus grounded approximately 6,000 of its A320 family of aircraft after an international flight suddenly lost altitude, leading to an emergency landing and the hospitalization of 15 ...
The average person living with Type 1 diabetes makes around 180 decisions a day to regulate the blood sugar their body’s ...
A mathematical problem that had remained unsolved for more than 10 years in the physics of complex systems has finally been ...
Tensor networks enable researchers to tackle quantum physics problems previously thought to be solvable only by quantum computers. Credit: Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Simons Foundation By applying a 1980s ...
In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of paper. As the shockwave rolled toward him, he dropped the papers and watched ...