A quantum problem once described as impossible for classical computers has now been solved using relatively modest hardware.

Fields Medal 2026 winners Hong Wang, Yu Deng, John Pardon, and Jacob Tsimerman each solved problems that had stood open for ...

Harish Chandra Verma, widely known as H.C. Verma, transformed physics education in India by writing Concepts of Physics after ...

A longstanding problem in physics has finally been cracked by Professor Kostya Trachenko of Queen Mary University of London's School of Physical and Chemical Sciences. His research, published in ...

Scientists say they have solved in detail what may be the most famous lawn-care-related problem in all of physics. The so-called Feynman sprinkler problem is named after one of the best-known ...

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Giorgio Parisi and his team used Anthropic's Claude AI to solve a physics math problem that had ...

John Hopfield, one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, is a true polymath. His career started with probing the physics of solid states during the field’s heyday in the 1950s before ...

From planning transportation networks to organizing massive datasets, many of society's most important challenges boil down ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Progress in the foundations of physics is moving slowly. And yet it moves. Today I look at the five biggest problems in physics, what their status is, and how long it will ...

Researchers at Google have created an algorithm that can translate complex physical problems into the language of quantum mechanics, which could make quantum computers able to tackle more tasks. IBM’s ...

As a physics major, it feels like I spend the majority of my waking life solving problems. I’ve calculated the amount of water you get from mixing different ratios of steam and ice, the path of ...