A decade after the discovery of the “amplituhedron,” physicists have excavated more of the timeless geometry underlying the ...

The philosopher Karen Crowther digs into how the space-time fabric could possibly emerge from something non-spatiotemporal.

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A 1930s-era breakthrough is helping physicists understand how quantum threads could weave together into a holographic ...

A mysterious phenomenon known as duality often leads to new discoveries in physics. This time, space-time itself can ...

A black hole formula worked out in the 1970s remains the most concrete clue physicists have about the threads of the ...

Until his dying days, the giant of 20th-century physics obsessed over the underpinnings of space and time, and how we can all ...

Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A surprisingly simple ...

Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system — even between ...

Last year, an immense but brief outburst of seismic energy was soon followed by a long hum that made the world ring. Finding ...