Michael Riordan surveys the extraordinary year of 1964, which saw the birth of the quark model, the invention of the Higgs ...

Asking what existed before the Big Bang is often dismissed as meaningless, since traditional physics breaks down when pushed ...

A new Big Bang model does away with speculative elements, putting gravitational waves at the forefront of the creation of ...

The Universe still holds many mysteries, and among them, dark matter remains one of the most intriguing. This invisible ...

Quantum advantage means a quantum computer can solve a specific problem much better or faster than any regular computer can.

Streamers are building huge audiences by attacking academic physics as just another corrupt establishment. Scientists are starting to worry about the consequences.

Researchers at Hiroshima University have developed a realistic, highly sensitive method to detect the Unruh effect—a ...

This project explores a powerful connection between gauge theory and gravity, two fundamental ingredients in our understanding of Nature. It is clear that there is a close mathematical analogy between ...

Ten years after scientists first detected gravitational waves emerging from two colliding black holes, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA ...

But the wonders of the internet has brought an entire economy built on outrage and conspiracy theories, enabling even the ...

Ten years after LIGO’s historical detection of gravitational waves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an ...

String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single mathematical framework capable of describing the entirety of the known universe. The ...