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This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to ...

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We zoom in 2-4 orders of magnitude each# time, and then we have this chasm that could be up to 17 orders of magnitude between# these elementary particles and the deepest layer.

A new theory suggests that “time” might be the product of a universe that, long ago, decided to settle down into one ...

“How quantum mechanics and gravity fit together is one of the most important outstanding problems in physics,” Kathryn Zurek, ...

Quantum mechanics depicts a counter-intuitive reality in which the act of observation influences what is observed — and few can agree on what that means.

After netting the world’s highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on his legacy and the future of physics ...

When it comes to cosmology, answering one question only leads to more. Just take light. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein dives into a reader's question ...

Since it was first awarded in 1901, the Nobel Prize in Physics has honored research from the discovery of subatomic particles to gravitational waves and supermassive black holes.