Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The ...

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For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – For Dr. Sylvester James Gates Jr., mathematics is magic. The 74-year-old theoretical physicist had always loved math – it ran in the family, after all. His father and grandfather ...

A team of researchers from Switzerland and France and theoretical physicists in Canada and the U.S., including Rice University, believe they have found evidence of a theorized quantum phenomenon ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Frank Close, a physics professor at Oxford University, about theoretical physicist Peter Higgs. Higgs died on Monday at the age of 94. Even if you're not into theoretical ...

To answer odd questions, physicists have odd ideas. An elegant new equation identifies the surprisingly orderly, mathematical way in which things break, shatter, and fall apart. At the turn of the ...

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

A theoretical proposal published in the journal Reports on Progress in Physics is making some bold claims about our previous understanding of quantum physics. Mainly, that we were wrong. The proposed ...