Imagine a juggler tossing balls into the air. The art of juggling is a dance between motion and pause, where the ball’s speed slows as it ascends, and then quickens on the way down. This dance reveals ...

David Goldberg, PhD, a professor and associate dean for research and graduate education in the College of Arts and Sciences, authored a cover article in New Scientist on April 22 about Noether’s ...

Cosmic testbed A computer simulation of the black-hole collision that produced the first gravitational wave signal to be detected, GW150914. (Courtesy: Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) project/LIGO ...

With World War I raging on throughout Europe, Hilbert could be found sitting in his office at the great university at Göttingen trying and trying again to understand one idea—Einstein’s new theory of ...

Physics tells us a lot about what we can do. We can use it to predict the motions of the stars to the most fundamental constituents of matter and nearly everything in between; physics can be a ...

Noether's theorem is a thread woven into the fabric of the science. We are able to understand the world because it is predictable. If we drop a rubber ball, it falls down rather than flying up. But ...

Quantum space and time Physicists have developed no-go theorems that limit quantum processes in space–time causality. (Courtesy: iStock/piranka) Physicists have developed a new theoretical framework ...

For more than 60 years, Bell's theorem has been the gold standard for demonstrating that quantum mechanics defies the rules ...

Danica McKellar is on a mission. She wants girls to love math -- and their bodies. Best known as Winnie from "The Wonder Years," McKellar is also a serious brainiac, with a summa cum laude degree from ...