"Precision in these measurements is critical, as even subtle discrepancies could signal deviations from the model — ...

The story opens with a scene both familiar and deceptively simple: physicists once again interrogating the fabric of reality, only this time emerging with a claim bold enough to quiet decades of ...

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

Scientists hunted dark matter and solar neutrinos with one of the largest experiments yet. While the neutrinos likely ...

A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

In the end, the Universe becomes a place where gravity and quantum physics slowly turn all mass into faint streams of particles.

The geometry of space, the setting in which physical laws operate, may hold clues to some of the biggest unanswered questions in fundamental physics. The underlying structure of spacetime itself could ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

Researchers from around the world have sought to answer important questions about the most basic laws of physics that govern our universe. Their experiment, the Majorana Demonstrator, has helped to ...

In the early universe, moments after the Big Bang and cosmic inflation, clusters of exotic, massive particles could have ...