Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something the universe simply hands to particles, a property encoded in ...

Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something particles simply possess, a built-in feature explained by the Higgs field but not fully illuminated by it. A new wave of research is now ...

Physicists are exploring whether hidden dimensions and the shape of space could help explain why fundamental particles have ...

Mathematicians are “reinventing the wheel” by giving it a new shape. Their newly imagined wheel looks like a many-dimensional guitar pick, and it could theoretically roll in ways beyond our ...