Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

By establishing a larger principle for how things shatter, certain energy-intensive tasks could gain an advantage.

Scientists have taken a major step toward solving a long-standing mystery in particle physics, by finding no sign of the ...

A new article examines the history of computing to help outline the direction of quantum research. It reports that quantum ...

When a guitar string is plucked or a playground swing is set in motion, the movement gradually fades away. Physicists call these “damped harmonic oscillators,” and Newton’s laws do a fine job of ...

Scientists finally caught solar neutrinos triggering a rare atomic transformation once thought nearly impossible to observe.

Columbia professors contributed to new research that seeks to understand an anomaly that has puzzled particle physics for ...

New results from the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab found no evidence of a hypothetical fourth flavor of neutrino ...

Dr. Carlos Calle, an Electrostatics and Surface Physics Laboratory lead scientist at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, is enjoying the growing success of his book, “Superstrings and Other Things, A Guide ...

Life expectancy has climbed steadily over the past century, but few people talk seriously about eliminating death itself. Now ...

The American Institute of Physics has awarded its 2002 Andrew Gemant Award for communicating physics to Michael Riordan, adjunct professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Beginning in the mid-20th century, Western intellectuals began dismantling the concept of objective truth. Postmodern ...