The new proof broadly consists of three steps: derive the macroscopic theory from the mesoscopic one; derive the mesoscopic theory from the microscopic one; and then stitch them together in a single ...

Observations from high-flying aircraft revealed that thunderclouds act as natural particle accelerators, emitting energetic ...

University of Chicago Prof. Frank Calegari has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. The first members elected ...

Math, citizen science and the scientific method are all tools researchers use to investigate evidence of unidentified ...

Mehtaab Sawhney, who joined Columbia last year, enjoys the thorny work of proving a seemingly straightforward statement of ...

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

An exact expression for a key process needed in many quantum technologies has been derived by a RIKEN mathematical physicist ...

By breaking a decades-old paradigm and rethinking the role that the dimension of time plays in physics, researchers from the ...

Elementary school results during the past six years using one curriculum haven't kept up with peer schools' improvements, so ...

Three-body problem: A longstanding problem in classical mechanics that tries to calculate the trajectories of three masses ...