Live Science spoke with Nobel prize-winning physicist David Gross, who recently received the $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, about the quest to unite all the forces and ...

Gross awarded $3 million “for a lifetime of groundbreaking contributions to theoretical physics, from the strong force to ...

UCSB professor David Gross earned a $3 million breakthrough prize, honoring scientists driving the growth of human knowledge.

If you understand how things work,” she says, “you can do things with that knowledge.” But she’s in this to solve an ...

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The Leinweber Foundation donated $18 million to the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, renaming it to the Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics. The total donation of $90 million is shared ...

Few concepts in physics are as familiar, yet as enigmatic, as time. In Einstein's theory of relativity, time is not absolute: ...

Perimeter Institute began in the summer of 1999 when Mike Lazaridis, founder and Co-CEO of Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the successful BlackBerry, found himself in a position to help foster ...

The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than others. While it's no replacement for either computer, the new device is a ...

Scientists from Skoltech and the University of Potsdam have developed a physical theory that sheds light on how molecular ...

R. Dijkgraaf, E. Witten, "Mean field theory, topological field theory, and multi-matrix models," Nuclear Physics B, 342:486-522, 1990. Robert Dijkgraaf (Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University ...