At 11.45 a.m. CET (at the earliest) on Tuesday 7 October, the winner(s) of the 108th Nobel Prize for Physics will be announced in Stockholm. Like just about everyone else, I have no information about ...

In the strange and fascinating world of quantum mechanics, particles have long been sorted into just two types: fermions and bosons. These labels help explain how matter forms and how forces work.

Scientists have taken a major step toward solving a long-standing mystery in particle physics, by finding no sign of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. One of the dumber assertions that always turns up in arguments about ...

Scientists have detected a strange new type of high-frequency wave on the sun's surface, and the waves are moving three times faster than scientists thought was possible. The acoustic waves, called ...