Should the universe “choose” braneworld, it could mean that your senses (which perceive fewer dimensions) are keeping you from experiencing the full number of dimensions surrounding you. This could ...

Learn about the particles showering down on Earth and how scientists find them at annual Arthur H. Compton Lecture series ...

You're late for an important appointment. Just as you are leaving your house, you realize your phone is flat. Imagine you ...

WASHINGTON, March 17, 2026 — AIP and the American Physical Society are honored to award Charles Thorn with the 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics. Thorn is being recognized for ...

Gravity is by far the weakest of nature’s four fundamental forces, and physicists have spent decades asking a deceptively simple question: why? One answer, first sketched a century ago and refined ...

He helped reshape modern string theory and won one of the world’s biggest science prizes. Yet Professor Ashoke Sen still ...

The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than ...

Pushed down to a certain scale, the laws of physics seem to fall apart. Astrid Eichhorn, a leader in an area of study called asymptotic safety, thinks we just need to push a little further.

More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...

The conceptual architecture of black holes has undergone a radical transformation between 2024 and 2026, transitioning from the classical bottomless pits of general relativity to the intricate ...

Physicists have long struggled to unite quantum mechanics—the theory governing tiny particles—with Einstein’s theory of ...

Michael S Turner argues that the next breakthrough in particle physics and cosmology may be just around the corner.