Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Doing physics is messy and being a physicist is even more complicated. Today, every physicist faces a complex reality of human and systemic factors when pursuing research: grant deadlines, peer-review ...

Time is a straightforward concept - or is it? The passing of minutes and years isn't as easy to explain as many assume.

Physics is the study of the underlying laws and mechanisms explaining how the universe works. Most of what we do in daily life is based on a principle or law of physics—dealing with forces, motion, ...

Physicists are quietly testing an audacious idea: that the mass of everything around us might not come from an invisible field, but from the hidden geometry of space itself. Instead of treating extra ...

During the 2026 Winter Olympics, athletes will leap off ramps, slide across ice and spin through the air. These performances ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When she was 10 years old, Rose Yu got a birthday present that would change her life—and, potentially, the way we study physics. Her ...

Andrew Coe says that physicists need to be more open minded to help build an inclusive environment for people who identify themselves as LGBT+ Scientists are often driven by a need to classify the ...

Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism and the Euler equation top a poll to find the greatest equations of all time. Robert P Crease discusses the results of his reader survey First among equals – ...

Rose Yu has a plan for how to make AI better, faster and smarter — and it’s already yielding results. When she was 10 years old, Rose Yu got a birthday present that would change her life — and, ...