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Whether it's the forces that keep athletes twirling, the weird laws governing the quantum realm, or the far-out ideas of time travel and alternate universes, physics and mathematics cover a lot of interesting territory. Our team of expert science writers and editors are here to demystify these concepts with clarity and accuracy, keeping you up to date with the latest physics news, discoveries, articles and features. 

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A promotional image for the Oppenheimer movie. Cillian Murphy (playing J. Robert Oppenheimer) stands in front of an explosion.

Oppenheimer: Everything we know about the atomic bomb creator's epic new biopic

By Fran Ruiz published

Christopher Nolan’s next movie will study the man who developed the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Here’s the release date, plot, trailers & more.

Abstract artist's impression of an energy vortex.

Gravity can transform into light, mind-bending physics paper suggests

By Paul Sutter published

In the early universe, gravity may have been capable of creating light, a new theoretical paper finds.

A pocket watch shoots out diffracted light against a black background.

Scientists create 'slits in time' in mind-bending physics experiment

By Anna Demming published

Researchers replicated the classic double slit experiment using lasers, but their slits are in time not space.

A baseball player hits a baseball during a game.

Baseball home runs could increase by 10% in the next 80 years. Here's why

By Jennifer Nalewicki published

Warmer temperatures due to climate change is resulting in more home runs in Major League Baseball.

Computer generated image of concentric rings around a central shaded hat (dark blue).

Newly discovered 'einstein' tile is a 13-sided shape that solves a decades-old math problem

By Paul Sutter published

A new 13-sided shape is the first example of an elusive "einstein" — a single shape that can be tiled infinitely without repeating a pattern.

The two high school students high five each other.

High school students may have just discovered an 'impossible' proof to the 2,000-year-old Pythagorean theorem

By Sascha Pare published

Two high school seniors have presented their proof of the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry — which mathematicians thought to be impossible — at an American Mathematical Society meeting.

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By Tia Ghose published

Live Science welcomes news, analysis, explainer and feature pitches from freelancers. Here's everything you need to know about submitting a story idea to Live Science.

A visual representation of Ramsey theorem for five nodes on a graph. Here, no triangle has edges that are all the same color, indicating no groups of three that are either all 'friends' or all 'strangers.'

Mathematicians make rare breakthrough on notoriously tricky 'Ramsey number' problem

By Stephanie Pappas published

The bounds on Ramsey numbers, which describe relationships between nodes in a network, have been narrowed.

An artist's illustration of three neutrinos, ghostly particles which barely interact with other forms of matter.

'Ghostly' neutrinos spotted inside the world's largest particle accelerator for the first time

By Ben Turner published

Signatures of neutrinos, or ghostly particles that rarely interact with others, were tentatively spotted in the Large Hadron Collider in 2021. Now, physicists have confirmed they are real.

A Hubble Telescope image of the galaxy cluster Cl0024+1654, showing red pinpricks of stars on a blue field of dark matter

There may have been a second Big Bang, new research suggests

By Paul Sutter published

Within a month of the Big Bang, a second cosmic explosion may have given the universe its invisible dark matter, new research suggests.

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