Physics

Theorists are in a frenzy over “fractons,” bizarre, but potentially useful, hypothetical particles that can only move in combination with one another.

The root of today’s quantum revolution was John Stewart Bell’s 1964 theorem showing that quantum mechanics really permits instantaneous connections between far-apart locations.

The Standard Model is a sweeping equation that has correctly predicted the results of virtually every experiment ever conducted, as Quanta explores in a new video.

These ultrabright flashes have recently been tracked for days, upending ideas about the cataclysms that create them.

Jupiter and Saturn should be freezing cold. Instead, they’re hot. Researchers now know why.

In three towering papers, a team of mathematicians has worked out the details of Liouville quantum field theory, a two-dimensional model of quantum gravity.

Federica Coppari uses the world’s most powerful laser to recreate the cores of distant worlds.

Superconductivity has been discovered in graphene devices without any twists, suggesting the form of superconductivity in the material might be mundane after all.

The accelerating effort to understand the mathematics of quantum field theory will have profound consequences for both math and physics.