A Princeton scientist with an interdisciplinary bent has taken two well-known problems in mathematics and reformulated them as a physics question, offering new tools to solve challenges relevant to a ...

A new tool to break down and segment large data set problems and problems with many parameters in particle physics could have a wide range of applications.

In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron ...

Few ideas in modern science have reshaped our understanding of reality more profoundly than space-time—the interwoven fabric ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension? That's the mind-boggling concept at the heart of a theory that University at Buffalo physicist Dejan Stojkovic and colleagues ...

AALTO, Finland — Scientists have potentially solved what many consider physics’ most challenging problem – reconciling Einstein’s theory of gravity with quantum mechanics, without adding ...

A line of engineering research seeks to develop computers that can tackle a class of challenges called combinatorial ...