For four decades, one of the most celebrated equations in physics remained half-proven. The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation, ...

Crystals, bacterial colonies, flame fronts: the growth of surfaces was first described in the 1980s by the ...

A mathematics professor at The University of Manchester has developed a novel machine-learning method to detect sudden changes in fluid behaviour, improving speed and cost of identifying these ...

For years, Rutgers physicist David Shih solved Rubik's Cubes with his children, twisting the colorful squares until the ...

John Pendry is known for creating an invisibility cloak. Twenty years on, he has used the same principles to fashion an even ...

Other scientists have investigated the idea of a hidden structure further. David Bohm, a 20th-century physicist, built a ...

Everyone's idea of the perfect cup of coffee is different. Whether you have yours black, with a splash of milk or extra sweet ...

For decades, scientists have tried and failed to explain how the force that binds the heart of atoms together really works.

In June 1924, Albert Einstein opened a letter from a man he had never met. The sender was a 30-year-old physics lecturer at the University of Dhaka named Satyendra Nath Bose. He introduced himself as ...