A physicist has mounted one of the most detailed technical challenges yet against the idea that our universe is a computer ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia Okanagan have published a mathematical argument that, they say, rules out ...

The 2026 edition of the traditional Boltzmann Lecture will be held on Monday, February 23rd, at 14:00, in Room 128–129. The lecture is organized by the Statistical Physics group at SISSA, close to ...

Using the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have performed the largest direct numerical ...

The field of particle physics is approaching a critical horizon defined by challenges including unprecedented data volumes and detector complexity. Upcoming ...

Francesca Capel and Nadine Bourriche analyze the most energetic particle that has ever hit Earth and its possible origin in ...

Melting time: Kae Nemoto looked at the melting of discrete time crystals. (Courtesy: iStock/William Potter) Researchers in Japan have developed a new mathematical technique to explore the ...

Statistical physics is a branch of physics that uses probability theory and statistics to solve physical problems that usually involve systems composed of a large number of units. Its main purpose is ...