The more you learn about the world around you, the less anything makes sense. But if you keep digging, well beyond the point at which most people would walk away from the whole endeavor, you just ...

This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in ...

Comment and Physics Why we must inspire people with the magic of condensed matter physics Condensed matter is a huge field of physics that gets less attention than it deserves. We must show people its ...

What comes to mind when you hear the term “theoretical physics?” Probably Einstein, Hawking, and Hideki Yukawa. Or, maybe you think of Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa and Yoichiro Nambu, the trio ...