For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other.

Mind = blown.

A new unified theory connects two fundamental domains of modern quantum physics: It joins two opposite views of how a single ...

When molecular biologist Francis Crick tripped on the psychedelic drug LSD in 1953, his mind famously pulled together all of his previous research on human DNA to conceive of the image of a double ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: An EU team of neuroscientists asked their peers: ...

Imagine a future where artificial intelligence (AI) systems, regardless of their specific tasks, all share a common understanding of the world. This is the essence of the "Platonic Representation ...

In a bold step toward solving one of science’s most puzzling problems, researchers have proposed a new way to bring gravity into the same mathematical language as the other forces of nature. While the ...

Could there be a unified theory of art? As someone who is a casual follower of the sciences and once happily attended a lecture in Boston by Stephen Hawking in which he amusingly illuminated some of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic showed that predicting the invasion of a novel pathogen into the human population and its evolutionary potential to generate new variants is crucial for preventing future ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." An EU team of neuroscientists asked their peers: “Can’t we all just get along?” They analyzed how five ...