Physicists once treated Einstein’s picture of a clockwork universe as the gold standard for what “reality” should look like, ...

When building a model rocket, it can be fun to get into the maths of it all—calculating the expected performance of your build, and then seeing how it measures up in the real world. To aid in that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. We're about halfway through the academic term at Union College, where I ...

A new study by physicists and neuroscientists from the University of Chicago, Harvard and Yale describes how connectivity among neurons comes about through general principles of networking and ...

The Standard Model. What a dull name for the most accurate scientific theory known to human beings. More than a quarter of the Nobel Prizes in physics of the last century are direct inputs to or ...

Both physical and economic phenomena may possess universal features that could be uncovered using the tools of physics. The principal difference is that in economic systems -- unlike physical ones -- ...

When machine learning is used to suggest new potential scientific insights or directions, algorithms sometimes offer solutions that are not physically sound. Take, for example, AlphaFold, the AI ...

Sometimes the universe is just too complicated to analyze. Heck, if you take a tennis ball and toss it across the room, even that is practically too complicated. After it leaves your hand, the ball ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Every once in a while, a revolutionary idea comes along that has the ...