Pondering the scale of the cosmos can feel as if you’re peering over the edge of the brink; it can be daunting enough to make you want to flee to the comforts of working, commuting, and other ...

Harvard University theoretical physicist Strassler debuts with a mind-bending investigation of “how the most esoteric-seeming physics affects every aspect of human existence.” Examining what makes ...

In 1993, the Higgs boson was at the center of much attention and frustration in the scientific world. Physicists were in the midst of what would become a four-decade search for the elementary particle ...

Growing up in the US during the oil embargo of the early 1970s, I was bombarded by public service announcements encouraging people to conserve energy. But at a very young age, I also read that “energy ...

Matt Strassler is right regarding words used in physics that can mislead. Changing them might go a long way to clarifying things (21 September, p 32). For example, instead of using a word like ...