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 ...

Quantum field theory (QFT) is the basis of the Standard Model of particle physics. This video explains what QFT is, why it’s necessary, and how it differs from non-relativistic quantum mechanics.

Simulating the fundamental forces of nature on a computer is one of the grand challenges of modern physics, and a team at the ...

For most theories in physics, the order of operations has little impact on the result. When setting a dial to a certain position, for example, it doesn't matter whether it's turned clockwise or ...