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Students from across the Intermountain West gathered to explore the world of science — and it was thrilling in more ways than one.

Almost every month, Emory University physicist Justin Burton and his graduate students step out of the lab and bring loud, ...

Tenets of quantum mechanics and special relativity, among other theoretical ideas, lead inexorably to string theory.

In her second pop-science book, theoretical cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein returns to her celestial and cultural roots.

During the 2026 Winter Olympics, athletes will leap off ramps, slide across ice and spin through the air. These performances will look different to my students who have studied physics through sports.

In July 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe triumphantly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, the long-sought linchpin of the subatomic world. Interacting with Higgs ...

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It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is described extremely well by quantum theory, while the world of gravitation ...