The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...

UChicago physics Prof. Bonnie Fleming, who is also the chief research officer at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is the new IRL’s deputy director. Visiting scholar Cédric Cerna will serve as ...

Inspired by Dalí’s vision and his engagement with scientific work, this program seeks to explore the limits of knowledge and ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for ...

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Two new awards totaling $4.8 million will fund next-generation instruments for mid-sized telescopes at Lick and McDonald Observatories, enabling researchers to study how planets and stars form. The ...

The Boston area lost several luminaries in 2025, but their contributions won’t soon be forgotten. From Kitty Dukakis’s ...

High above Antarctica, two giant NASA balloons are being readied to drift along the edge of space, turning the polar sky into a laboratory for some of the hardest questions in physics. Instead of ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, perfectly described on cosmic scales yet refusing to mesh with the quantum rules that govern everything else. A growing camp ...

Let's rewind the clock back…oh, I don't know, let's say a hundred years. It was 1917, and Einstein had just developed his general theory of relativity. It was a masterpiece, giving us our modern-day ...

Cosmology is the study of the universe; its birth, evolution, and ultimate fate. This includes further developing and refining the prevailing model, the Big Bang theory, investigating the universe’s ...