Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also ...

Relating Noether’s theorem to introductory concepts like Newton’s laws can give students an early appreciation of its impact.

David Gross, a celebrated U.S. theoretical physicist, calls himself an optimist—especially concerning the future of his field ...

Four decades on, the gap between well-monitored volcanoes and unmonitored ones still shapes who lives and dies. The new ...

After winning a Breakthrough Prize, the world’s most lucrative science award, theoretical physicist David Gross is using the ...

The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of ...

Only a third of California students meet math standards. A new bill would require schools to test students for basic skills and help those who need it.

With climate change impacting the world’s coffee supplies, can physics help you reduce waste by brewing smarter? Michael ...

Now, artificial intelligence (AI) tools are providing powerful new ways to address long-standing problems in physics. “The ...

The University of the Pacific recently hosted the annual Math Steeplechase. More than 1,000 students participated in the ...

Measuring the strength of gravity is extraordinarily difficult, and different experiments have always disagreed – but a new ...

Two UC Berkeley faculty, a UCLA physicist and a UC Santa Barbara Nobel laureate were awarded Breakthrough Foundation prizes ...