Physics

Mountains look solid. But that can only be a mirage. On extremely long time scales, natural landscapes crawl and flow like viscous rivers.Until recently, most scientists would have said that things like burrowing animals, falling trees,…

However, they needed the Brookhaven 50-foot magnetic separation line to run the experiment. And so in 2013 the Magnet embarked on a 3,200-mile odyssey, mostly by barge, along the east coast, around Florida and up the Mississippi, then by…

Isadore Singer, who combined vast fields of mathematics and physics to become one of the most important mathematicians of his day, died Thursday at his Boxborough, Massachusetts home. He was 96 years old.His death was confirmed by his…

Martinus JG Veltman, a Dutch theoretical physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for work explaining the structure of some fundamental forces in the universe and forming the basis for the development of the Standard Model, the backbone of…