Ask DALL·E 2, an image generation system created by OpenAI, to paint a picture of “goldfish slurping Coca-Cola on a beach,” and it will spit out surreal images of exactly that. The program would have ...

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the dreams of science fiction enthusiasts when he began to study the limits of ...

IN our issue of December 9, 1922, p. 792, we directed attention to the first of a series of reports on the teaching of physics in the United States by a committee of the American Physical Society ...

THE first edition of Prof. Richtmyer's book has been appreciated by so many physicists that the appearance of a second edition is bound to be warmly welcomed, and it is only necessary here to note the ...

Scientists at CERN spent the last decade waiting for a one-in-ten-billion chance event, and now they’ll spend the next few years figuring out whether it challenges the laws that (we think) govern the ...

Soon after it was released a few short years ago, I began to delve into Steven Wolfram's new book, "A Fundamental Theory of Physics." I have followed his work since the early '90s when I first used ...

The following is an excerpt from Seven Brief Lessons On Physics, by Carlo Rovelli. These lessons were written for those who know little or nothing about modern science. Together they provide a rapid ...

Discoveries in science do not just revolutionize science, but can also exert a deep and lasting impact on the visual arts and on literature. One famous example is the effect that Galileo’s telescopic ...

More engagement with the tools of philosophy might have helped the author shore up the position of science. (Courtesy: Detlev Van Ravenswaay/Science Photo Library) Why did Newton’s laws take the form ...

In this sequel to my paper on the nature and pitfalls of the argument that there are parallels between modern physics and ancient mysticism, I discuss parallelism as a strategy in intellectual ...

Djuna Croon receives funding from the University of Sussex. Sometimes, the hardest job for a theoretical physicist is telling the story. The work in this field can be conducted entirely in the ...

Antimatter sounds like science fiction, but it's definitely science fact. But scientists are puzzled why we see none of it in the cosmos. The answer to that question is an interesting one, which ...