When we do these big things nowadays, we do them together. If we continue to dream big and work together, even more amazing things lie ahead. Dennis Overbye joined The Times in 1998, and has been ...

One of the examples I used for how quantum physics shows up in an ordinary morning was my alarm clock, which ultimately traces its time back to the definition of one second as 9,192,631,770 ...

This course is one of the major fronts in an endless battle within physics circles about, as the post title says, whether we spend too much time teaching historical physics.

I try to be intellectually honest in everything that I write, especially about what we know and what we don't know. If you're writing for the public, the one thing you can't do is overstate your ...

Physics Do we live in a hologram? Why physics is still mesmerised by this idea. The holographic universe theory still grips physicists 25 years since it was first published.

But how do we know that pi is an irrational number? ... so being able to write the number in a finite amount of symbols," Wadim Zudilin, ... uniting 3 theories in physics.

How do these particles build up everything we see around us? ... Time in physics; Story Source: Materials provided by The Nobel Foundation. Note: Content may be edited for style and length.

In quantum physics, each particle’s state is also a wave. But when we send a stream of photons – one by one – through the slits, it creates a pattern of two waves interfering with each other ...

If Isaac Newton suddenly popped out of a time machine, he’d be delighted to see how far physics had come. Things that were deeply mysterious a few centuries ago are now taught in freshman ...

The key to understanding why life is not explainable in current physics may be to reconsider our notions of time and information. Life: modern physics can’t explain it – but our new theory ...