Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works extremely well in its own domain: Quantum theory explains how atoms and ...

As the scientific community embraces open science principles, the American Physical Society is launching a new open access journal designed to meet the moment. With submissions opening in late ...

Physical-collapse theories have long offered a natural solution to the central mystery of the quantum world. But a series of increasingly precise experiments are making them untenable. How does ...

Machines that learn like babies: Reinforcement learning expert David Silver speaking at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum on 15 September, 2025. (Courtesy: Bernhard Kreutzer/HLF) Today’s artificial ...

Mr. Chairman and members of the Science Committee: Thank you for the invitation to come before you and participate in this hearing on the Future of Human Space Flight. I am honored by your request.

No anniversary list is ever complete. Just last month, for instance, my Top 10 scientific anniversaries of 2018 omitted the publication two centuries ago of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It should have ...

(1) A Laboratory Manual of Experiments in Physics. By Prof. Leonard Rose Ingersoll. Pp. ix + 220. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw-Hill ...

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