From growing up in a Kolkata shaped by legends like Satyendra Nath Bose to winning the $3 million Breakthrough Prize, ...

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Columnist Natalie Wolchover examines the latest developments in the “forever war” over whether string theory can describe the world.

Dimensions beyond the four we’re familiar with could solve a host of problems in physics and cosmology. Columnist Leah Crane ...

The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than ...

Pushed down to a certain scale, the laws of physics seem to fall apart. Astrid Eichhorn, a leader in an area of study called asymptotic safety, thinks we just need to push a little further.

The case could upend the way states handle ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive later. President Trump has ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Monday appeared poised to reject Mississippi’s mail-in ballot law, a decision ...

Physicists have long struggled to unite quantum mechanics—the theory governing tiny particles—with Einstein’s theory of ...

DNC Chair Ken Martin has a plan to return Democrats to power, but he needs to keep the party from tearing itself apart first ...