Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

A century ago, Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking ...

Long before quantum mechanics existed, a scientist developed a powerful way of describing motion by drawing an analogy between particles and light.

Physicists have found that an elementary particle called the W boson appears to be 0.1 percent too heavy—a tiny discrepancy that could foreshadow a huge shift in fundamental physics. The measurement, ...

For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other.

Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something the universe simply hands to particles, a property encoded in equations rather than explained from first principles. A new proposal argues that ...

We explain how The Standard Model of particle physics works! The Standard Model of particle physics is arguably the most successful theory in the history of physics. It predicts the results of ...

What is the Stokes-Einstein Equation? The Stokes-Einstein equation is a fundamental relation in physics that describes the diffusion of spherical particles through a fluid with low Reynolds number. It ...

Physicists have long sought to describe the universe in terms of equations. Now, S James Gates explains how research on a class of geometric symbols known as adinkras could lead to fresh insights into ...

Like-charged objects were found to clump together while opposites repelled because of the newly discovered "electrosolvation force." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

This year’s list includes a book about an eminent physicist striving to avoid fame, two unique books for children, and a book with equations you'll actually be able to read. Elusive: How Peter Higgs ...