For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, resisting every attempt to merge Einstein’s smooth ...

Physicists have spent a century trying to reconcile the smooth fabric of spacetime in general relativity with the jittery ...

FROM time to time controversies have appeared in various journals regarding that most difficult of all physical conceptions—entropy. I have purposely avoided passing any opinions as to the merits of ...

Theoretical physicists and cosmologists deal with the biggest questions , like “Why are we here?” “When did the universe begin?” and “How?” Another questions that bugs them, and likely has bugged you, ...

Sharon Glotzer has made a number of career-shifting discoveries, each one the kind “that completely changes the way you look at the world,” she said, “and causes you to say, ‘Wow, I need to follow ...