The physics preceptor sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss New York City, interdisciplinarity, and the origins of math.

What if the simple act of noticing your behavior is what shapes who you become? The practice of simple daily reflection may be the real force behind identity and lasting change.

What is color theory? Learn how modern geometry has confirmed physicist Erwin Schrödinger’s 100-year-old color theory, ...

Sometimes a visually compelling metaphor is all you need to get an otherwise complicated idea across. In the summer of 2001, a Tulane physics professor named John P.

Root, an Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology, investigates the significance of quantum satellite gravimetry in this intriguing analysis ...

Atomic size measurements like van der Waals and covalent radii are central to chemistry, but are they grounded in reality?

Last year, our most detailed map of the universe yet suggested our understanding of dark energy has been wrong for decades. The shock result is reigniting the search for a better cosmic story ...

Estimating things that exist is generally easy, but when it comes to estimating things that do not exist, it's more difficult. This is something physicists from Poland and the UK are well aware of. To ...

Over the past decade, researchers have become good at creating devices that emit single ...

Baez called for the development of new mathematics — he called it “green” math — to better capture the workings of Earth’s biosphere and climate. For his part, he sought to apply category theory, a ...

Quantum computing is moving from theory to reality faster than many people expected—and that has major implications for cryptocurrency security.

A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical ...