For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

Reality is stranger than you think. Seriously. While we go about our daily lives, convinced we understand the basics of ...

The earliest acoustic vibrations in the cosmos weren’t exactly sound – they travelled at half the speed of light and there ...

Fraunhofer IIS is developing an affordable solution for continuous infrastructure monitoring by adapting radar sensors originally designed for the automotive sector. In response to growing concerns ...

Dogs bark greetings to visitors who stop by the Humane Society Harrisburg Area. But once Lydia Hammond starts to pull at the strings, a calm settles in kennels.

In this video, we explore the relationship between string theory and quantum field theory (QFT). QFT is a mathematical framework that describes nearly all particles and forces in the universe but ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called “Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?” Hawking, who later became my ...

A guitar is much more than a set of strings being dragged over a piece of timber. It is a narrator–a tool which could whisper, yell, or sing the sweet truth. Behind each chord is a complicated ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called “Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?” Hawking, who later became my ...

It suggests that, if we could look deep inside electrons, we would see loops of strings, vibrating just like those on a violin. Different patterns of string vibrations correspond to different ...