Whether it's the forces that keep athletes twirling, the weird laws governing the quantum realm, or the far-out ideas of time travel and alternate universes, physics and mathematics cover a lot of interesting territory.
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Our team of expert science writers and editors are here to demystify these concepts with clarity and accuracy, keeping you up to date with the latest physics news, discoveries, articles and features.
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High school students who came up with 'impossible' proof of Pythagorean theorem discover 9 more solutions to the problem
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Keeping time: The history, origin and meanings of B.C. and A.D.
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What is the largest known prime number?
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The 9 most massive numbers in existence
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Largest known prime number, spanning 41 million digits, discovered by amateur mathematician using free software
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The '3-body problem' may not be so chaotic after all, new study suggests
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Black holes from the universe's infancy could reveal invisible matter
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The universe may end in a 'Big Freeze,' holographic model of the universe suggests
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Huge cosmological mystery could be solved by wormholes, new study argues
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Black hole singularities defy physics. New research could finally do away with them.
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Largest 3D map of our universe could 'turn cosmology upside down'
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The expansion of the universe could be a mirage, new theoretical study suggests
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Dark energy could lead to a second (and third, and fourth) Big Bang, new research suggests
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What Is dark energy?
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Largest dark energy map could reveal the fate of the universe
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Did a dark energy discovery just prove Einstein wrong? Not quite.
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Black holes from the universe's infancy could reveal invisible matter
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The universe had a secret life before the Big Bang, new study hints
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'Immortal' stars at the Milky Way's center may have found an endless energy source, study suggests
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Earth's upper atmosphere could hold a missing piece of the universe, new study hints
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Euclid space telescope reveals more than 300,000 new objects in 1st 24 hours of observations (photos)
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Giant 'rogue waves' of invisible matter might be disrupting the orbits of stars, new study hints
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Cosmic 'superbubbles' might be throwing entire galaxies into chaos, theoretical study hints
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The universe may be dominated by particles that break causality and move faster than light, new paper suggests
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Millions of invisible 'mirror stars' could exist in the Milky Way, and astronomers know how to find them
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Dead stars sometimes shine again — and gravity itself may be responsible
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Elusive Planet Nine could be an alternative form of gravity masquerading as a planet, study claims
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Major CERN experiment proves antigravity doesn't exist — at least when it comes to antimatter
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Rare 'Einstein cross' warps light from one of the universe's brightest objects in this stunning image
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Da Vinci understood key aspect of gravity centuries before Einstein, lost sketches reveal
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Scientists reveal 'invisible' galaxy from the early universe, using space-time trick predicted by Einstein
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Physicists want to use gravitational waves to 'see' the beginning of time
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Something is wrong with Einstein's theory of gravity
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China builds 'artificial moon' for gravity experiment
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High school students who came up with 'impossible' proof of Pythagorean theorem discover 9 more solutions to the problem
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What is the largest known prime number?
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The 9 most massive numbers in existence
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Largest known prime number, spanning 41 million digits, discovered by amateur mathematician using free software
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This 180-year-old graffiti scribble was actually an equation that changed the history of mathematics
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'Can you predict the future? Yes, of course you can.': Inside the 1 equation that can predict the weather, sporting events, and more
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World's most difficult maze could help reveal the secrets of otherworldly quasicrystals
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'The beauty of symbolic equations is that it's much easier to … see a problem at a glance': How we moved from words and pictures to thinking symbolically
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Avi Wigderson wins $1 million Turing Award for using randomness to change computer science
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1st-ever observation of 'spooky action' between quarks is highest-energy quantum entanglement ever detected
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Heaviest antimatter particle ever discovered could hold secrets to our universe's origins
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The Higgs particle could break physics throughout the universe. Here's why it hasn't.
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'A remarkable conspiracy': Why is matter neutral? Physicist Frank Close explores the mystery in a new book
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Antimatter detected on International Space Station could reveal new physics
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Google Doodle honors César Lattes, Brazilian physicist who discovered a long-sought particle hidden in cosmic rays
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Peter Higgs, Nobel Prize-winning physicist who predicted the Higgs boson, dies at 94
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Mysterious 'unparticles' may be pushing the universe apart, new theoretical study suggests
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World's smallest particle accelerator is 54 million times smaller than the Large Hadron Collider, and it works
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Quantum physicists discover 'negative time' in strange experiment
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Stephen Hawking's black hole radiation paradox could finally be solved — if black holes aren't what they seem
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Physicists find superconductor behavior at temperatures once thought 'impossible'
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Longstanding physics mystery may soon be solved, thanks to Einstein and quantum computing
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Time might be a mirage created by quantum physics, study suggests
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Atoms squished closer together than ever before, revealing seemingly impossible quantum effects
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Stunning image shows atoms transforming into quantum waves — just as Schrödinger predicted
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ReferenceQuantum mechanics: Definitions, axioms, and key concepts of quantum physics
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Tweak to Schrödinger's cat equation could unite Einstein's relativity and quantum mechanics, study hints
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