This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American "He who loves practice without theory is like ...

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger developed quantum theory’s wave equation, which describes quantum systems as waves that ...

Is science reform stunted by lack of theory? Source: Photo by Mwabonje from Pexels The new sociology manuscript on the current scientific reform movement ends with a damning sentence: “Metascience has ...

Einstein's theory of general relativity suggests that the "memory" of ancient events, such as black hole mergers, may be etched into the fabric of space-time by gravitational waves. New research shows ...

We experience the flow of time because it’s a natural outcome of the basic laws of physics. But we may need to build a whole new model to account for gravity’s influence.