Andromeda sounds far away because 2.5 million light-years sounds far away. It lands with authority. It feels exact. It gives you the comfort of a labeled universe, one where galaxies, stars and ...

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A team of physicists has provided some of the clearest evidence yet that our universe could be just one big projection. In 1997, theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena proposed that an audacious model ...

Attempts to turn string theory into a workable theory of nature have led to the potential conclusion that our universe is a hologram—that what we perceive as three spatial dimensions is actually ...

Italy's National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), in collaboration with the Galileo Galilei Institute (GGI) of Florence, have awarded the first Galileo Medal to Juan Maldacena "for his pioneering ...

Grand ideas have a way of turning up in unusual settings, far from an office or a chalkboard. Months ago, Quanta Magazine set out to photograph some of the world’s most accomplished scientists and ...

A ten-dimensional theory of gravity makes the same predictions as standard quantum physics in fewer dimensions. A team of physicists has provided some of the clearest evidence yet that our Universe ...

Juan Maldacena says string theory is the right path to solve mysteries of the universe Among the constellation of star physicists that has landed in Bengaluru to celebrate hundred years of Albert ...

Juan Maldacena of the Institute for Advanced Study has been named the 2018 recipient of the Richard E. Prange Prize and Lectureship in Condensed Matter Theory and Related Areas. Dr. Maldacena will ...