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

Physicists have long treated mass as a basic ingredient of nature, something particles simply possess, even as the Higgs ...

A recent study published in Nuclear Physics B examines how hidden dimensions might influence the physical reality that we ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

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

Reintroduction : View from the twenty-first century -- Augmenting a 1983 history of the fourth dimension in culture and art (1900-1950) : X-rays and ether physics as the context for the "fourth ...

Physicists of the 19th century assumed that space was distinct from time – and two researchers now suspect they were correct to do so. Their conclusion, which comes from considering the behaviour of ...

The notion of dimension at first seems intuitive. Glancing out the window we might see a crow sitting atop a cramped flagpole experiencing zero dimensions, a robin on a telephone wire constrained to ...

A research team led by Maxim Kontsevich, a professor at the French Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies (IHES) and a 1998 Fields Medalist, has released a proof claiming to solve a long-standing pr ...