Charlie Wood

Renormalization has become perhaps the single most important advance in theoretical physics in 50 years.

Cosmologists have concluded that the universe doesn’t appear to clump as much as it should. Could both of cosmology’s big puzzles share a single fix?

Physicists have identified an algebraic structure underlying the messy mathematics of particle collisions. Some hope it will lead to a more elegant theory of the natural world.

An 18th-century physicist first predicted the existence of a chorus of atmospheric waves that swoop around Earth. Scientists have finally found them.

Detailed computer simulations have found that a cosmic contraction can generate features of the universe that we observe today.

Modified gravity theories have never been able to describe the universe’s first light. A new formulation does.

Cosmic rays may have given right-handed genetic helixes an evolutionary edge at the beginning of life’s history.

One hundred years after it was proposed, the Ising model is used to understand everything from magnets to brains.

Collider physicists report that several measurements of particles called B mesons deviate from predictions. Alone, each oddity looks like a fluke, but their collective drift is more suggestive.