Until his dying days, the giant of 20th-century physics obsessed over the underpinnings of space and time, and how we can all ...

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

The philosopher Karen Crowther digs into how the space-time fabric could possibly emerge from something non-spatiotemporal.

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A 1930s-era breakthrough is helping physicists understand how quantum threads could weave together into a holographic ...

A mysterious phenomenon known as duality often leads to new discoveries in physics. This time, space-time itself can ...

A black hole formula worked out in the 1970s remains the most concrete clue physicists have about the threads of the ...

Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A surprisingly simple ...

Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system — even between ...

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