An elegant new equation identifies the surprisingly orderly, mathematical way in which things break, shatter, and fall apart.

So far, the team has measured several effects, including wave steepening, shock fronts and solitary wave fission thanks to the chip. While these nonlinear behaviours had been predicted in superfluids, ...

Rockets rarely blast straight upward and keep going in that direction. Instead, most orbital launches curve eastward, leaning ...

Specifically, physicists and philosophers tend to conflate what it means for something to exist and what it means for ...

Thermodynamics was built to describe steam engines and stars, yet the same equations now sit at the heart of quantum ...

It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is ...

Imagine standing on top of a mountain. From this vantage point, we can see picturesque valleys and majestic ridges below, and streams wind their way downhill. If a drop of rain falls somewhere on this ...

New results from the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab found no evidence of a hypothetical fourth flavor of neutrino ...

But primes are often considered the building blocks of mathematics, and math itself is the scaffolding that supports ...

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the ...