Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has honored ideas that changed the way we live. From discoveries that made headlines to inventions that quietly found their way into your pocket, kitchen, or telescope, ...

From the secrets of the universe, to the cutting-edge of computer science, our Theoretical Physics programme is more than a collection of modules - it is a way of thinking that connects varied schools ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. A couple of notes up front before I start suggesting possibilities for ...

Carbon nanotubes are the hottest topic in physics, according to a new way of ranking the popularity of different scientific fields. Nanowires are second, followed by quantum dots, fullerenes, giant ...

The “Snowmass” process seeks to identify the most promising questions to explore in future research. Next week, scientists with connections to US particle physics will make their morning coffee, boot ...

Stephen Wolfram, inventor of the Wolfram computational language and the Mathematica software, announced that he may have found a path to the holy grail of physics: A fundamental theory of everything.

My last several articles have covered lots of software for doing research in the sciences. But one important area I haven't covered in detail is the resources available for teaching the next ...