David Gross, a celebrated U.S. theoretical physicist, calls himself an optimist—especially concerning the future of his field ...

After winning a Breakthrough Prize, the world’s most lucrative science award, theoretical physicist David Gross is using the ...

The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of ...

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Of all the possible ways for the universe to end, the one that is the most concerning is known as False Vacuum Decay. While ...