This suggests that string theory may indeed be an inevitable description of the universe, even as direct experimental verification remains out of reach. “A bootstrap is a mathematical construction in ...

String theory suggests that the most fundamental building blocks of the universe are not particles like electrons or quarks, but tiny, vibrating strings of energy. It is the vibration and arrangement ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of what the universe looked like in the moments before it rapidly changed ...

As a parent, have you ever been puzzled as to why our children seem to be having a harder time despite them having an “easier” childhood than we did? If you find yourself comparing your ...

The Many-Worlds Interpretation Proposed by physicist Hugh Everett in 1957, the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum ...

But a team of physicists has now taken a significant step forward in validating string theory by using an innovative mathematical ... Physics: Current Generated by the Quantum Hall Effect Has ...

Quantum calculations amount to sophisticated estimates. But in 1931, Hans Bethe intuited precisely how a chain of particles ...

Young UC alums, students and faculty from eight campuses and two national labs made the Forbes 30 Under 30 list across a slew ...

Ophelia Bauckholt was killed in a shootout with U.S. Border Patrol agents in northern Vermont — an unlikely end to a life that held so much promise.

As a meteorologist, one of my favorite quotes comes from Lewis Fry Richardson, an English mathematician, physicist and meteorologist who pioneered modern mathematical ... a taut string on an ...