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. 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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When was math invented?
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World's largest atom smasher turned lead into gold — and then destroyed it in an instant
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Groundbreaking atomic clock is off by less than 1 second every 100 million years
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Physicists spot elusive 'free-range' atoms ineracting in space for first time ever
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Mathematicians devise new way to solve devilishly difficult algebra equations
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Mathematicians just solved a 125-year-old problem, uniting 3 theories in physics
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Ghostly galaxy without dark matter baffles astronomers
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'The universe has thrown us a curveball': Largest-ever map of space reveals we might have gotten dark energy totally wrong
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'A frankly embarrassing result': We still know hardly anything about 95% of the universe
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Cosmic voids may explain the universe's acceleration without dark energy
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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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Ghostly galaxy without dark matter baffles astronomers
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'Heavy' dark matter would rip our understanding of the universe apart, new research suggests
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Something invisible and 'fuzzy' may lurk at the Milky Way's center, new research suggests
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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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'Gravity waves' from Hurricane Helene seen rippling through the sky in new NASA images
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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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When was math invented?
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Mathematicians devise new way to solve devilishly difficult algebra equations
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Mathematicians just solved a 125-year-old problem, uniting 3 theories in physics
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Mysterious Antikythera Mechanism may have been an ancient Greek toy, new study hints
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Mathematicians solve vexing 'crowd problem' that explains why public spaces devolve into chaos
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How do we know pi is an irrational number?
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Pi Day quiz: How much do you know about this irrational number?
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14-year-old known as 'the human calculator' breaks 6 math world records in 1 day
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Could monkeys really type the complete works of Shakespeare?
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World's largest atom smasher turned lead into gold — and then destroyed it in an instant
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'Beauty' particle discovered at world's largest atom smasher could unlock new physics
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Elusive neutrinos' mass just got halved — and it could mean physicists are close to solving a major cosmic mystery
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The world's largest atom smasher is getting a powerful new upgrade
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'Spooky' quantum entanglement discovered inside individual protons for 1st time ever
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'The Majoron' — a bizarre particle that's its own opposite — could explain the biggest mysteries of the universe, scientists claim
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800-mile-long 'DUNE' experiment could reveal the hidden dimensions of the universe
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Large Hadron Collider finds 1st evidence of the heaviest antimatter particle yet
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Is light a particle or a wave?
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Physicists spot elusive 'free-range' atoms ineracting in space for first time ever
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Physicists create hottest Schrödinger's cat ever in quantum breakthrough
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Scientists claim to find 'first observational evidence supporting string theory,' which could finally reveal the nature of dark energy
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'Einstein's equations need to be refined': Tweaks to general relativity could finally explain what lies at the heart of a black hole
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The shape of light: Scientists reveal image of an individual photon for 1st time ever
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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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