How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.

Now, more than 150 years later, a team of Japanese physicists are resurrecting the concept to solve one of cosmology’s ...

The new data seem to indicate that the cosmological constant is negative, and that the universe will end in a Big Crunch,” ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

Physicists have been chasing one of the universe’s strangest mysteries—neutrinos, nearly invisible particles that zip through ...

Modern multiverse fiction incorporates real physics equations and string theory principles rather than relying on pure ...

Not just the universe as we see it, but the universe as we try to comprehend it ... Given all these gaps in understanding, leading cosmologists disagree about whether some type of new physics beyond ...

Researchers at Tohoku University have shown that linking quantum sensors in optimized networks can dramatically boost their sensitivity. Uncovering dark matter, the invisible substance thought to bind ...

According to the model, dark matter may have started as particles that were hot, light, massless, and fast. As the universe ...

Japanese physicists have demonstrated for the first time that knotoid structures—stable knots—can naturally form within a ...