Theoretical physics is full of mind-boggling ideas, but two of
the weirdest are quantum entanglement and wormholes. Juan Maldacena, Carl P. Feinberg
Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, describes how the
weird quantum phenomenon of...
String theory has so far failed to live up to its promise as a way to unite gravity and quantum mechanics, but at the same time, it has blossomed into one of the most useful sets of tools in science.
The story of how and why the universe began is written in the
sky. Cosmologists believe that details of the Big Bang are encoded
in triangles and other shapes that appear in the distribution of
galaxies. Lately, they’ve made significant progress in...
