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Neutrinos can flit between states effortlessly, hinting at deep new physics.

Like a set of common chords, the same math appears in diverse fields of physics.

Particle accelerators can make you healthy and wealthy.

Two months ago, we learned of landmark evidence bolstering the theory of inflation, a period very soon after the Big Bang when the Universe expanded at a terrific rate, stretching out and smoothing its lumps, and making it remarkably consistent on large scales. A recent study confirms that, even 13.8 billion years after the […]

When you look in the mirror, the image you see looks a lot like you—not exactly the same, because when you raise your right hand, your mirror-self raises its left. What’s more, the mirror image is merely an assemblage of reflected light, without a physical body behind it. Despite these differences, you can see an […]

A new model—“The Big Splat”—explains the strange asymmetry of the moon.

He ushered symmetry into theoretical physics, then vanished without a trace.

Theoretical physics milks symmetry to power its newest tool.

The West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae)AlessandroZocc via Shutterstock It was an image in a book of a sparkly blue fish—a West Indian Ocean coelacanth—that inspired German painter Franziska Schenk to begin a project that would occupy much of her adult life. “It was mysterious and beautiful,” she says, “and as a child I had […]