Some 40 years ago, physicists noticed certain metals were conducting electricity in a bizarre way no one could explain. New ...

Everything around us, from atoms and molecules to planets and galaxies, is governed by two extraordinarily successful ...

Just slow down. Of course, that means it’ll take longer to get to your destination. A few years ago, I wrote a piece for WIRED on finding an optimal driving speed, assuming the extra drive time costs ...

A mathematical problem that had remained unsolved for more than 10 years in the physics of complex systems has finally been ...

How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a ...

The University of Minnesota-connected citizen science platform logs its one billionth contribution to scientific knowledge.

New AI tools have the potential to change the way workers perform and learn, but little is known about their impacts on the job. In this paper, we study the staggered introduction of a generative ...

Time has always seemed like the one thing physics could count on. Matter changes, stars die, particles flicker in and out, ...