A South African born to immigrant parents physicist turned financial engineer, Emanuel Derman, helped define modern quantitative finance after an early career in programming language and modelling ...

Dark matter is some kind of substance that has gravity—it holds galaxies together—yet cannot be directly seen with any instrument yet created. We know it’s out there because of the effects it has on ...

The nature of quantum particles has long puzzled scientists. While single-particle interference suggests that a photon can behave like a spread-out wave, a whole photon is only ever detected in one ...

Hiroshima University researchers develop a new experimental method to demonstrate that interference physically delocalizes each photon.The nature of ...

Four University of Chicago scholars were named 2025 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for their distinguished contributions to the sciences.

The physics and astronomy professor sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss his work on dark energy and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the largest digital camera in the world.

CERN’s BASE collaboration has moved a particle trap containing a cloud of protons out of the laboratory’s antimatter ...

The science of nothing turns out to be the science of something very strange: when physicists, philosophers, and mathematicians try to describe “nothing”, they consistently find structure, energy, and ...

Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The ...

Behind every scientific breakthrough is a long trail of dead ends. Just ask particle physicists — or the Austrian farmer who ...

A new independent measurement by the CMS experiment at the LHC is consistent with the existence of the most massive composite particle ever observed, the momentary union of a top quark and its antiqua ...

A computer language designed to robustly verify mathematical theorems and expose logical flaws has been turned towards a physics paper – and spotted an error. The discovery raises questions about how ...