Complex numbers are created when you add a real number and an imaginary number (like “i”). These numbers are used throughout ...

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For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, perfectly described on cosmic scales yet refusing to mesh with the quantum rules that govern everything else. A growing camp ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

Evaluating the committee's ranking process, and what teams should be most upset over the final CFP ranking.

In 1867, Lord Kelvin pictured atoms as tiny knots in an invisible medium called the ether. That picture turned out to be wrong, since atoms are built ...

Discover the 9 greatest Indian physicists who shaped modern science. From C.V. Raman to S.N. Bose, explore their ...

The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...

A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...