A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

Ramanujan's pi-computing machinery exactly mirrors the necessary structure in modern physical theories (LCFTs).

Researchers from the School of Physics at Wits University, working with collaborators from the Universitat Autònoma de ...

It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is ...

The Quantum Entanglement Yin-Yang Paradigm So, we’re talking about quantum entanglement, right? It’s this weird, spooky ...

In late 2025, rumors of US government equity stakes in quantum firms triggered double-digit rallies. The WisdomTree Quantum ...

Aramco Ventures, the venture capital arm of Aramco, today announced plans to open a new office in Paris, France, in 2026. The expansion underscores ...

Black hole research sits at the crossroads of gravity, quantum physics and high-performance computing, yet it is often ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was ...

Imagine zooming into matter at the quantum scale, where tiny particles can interact in more than a trillion configurations at once. If that sounds complicated, it is. Physicists often rely on ...