Humanity has achieved remarkable feats, yet 95% of the universe remains invisible and unexplained. Our theories, general ...

Scientists say microscopic wormholes could explain discrepancies in cosmological constants and affect our understanding of ...

Kellogg Stelle was a professor of physics at Imperial College London for decades until his death last month. In 1977, he developed a particle theory of gravity that’s renormalizable, but the theory’s ...

Yet according to physics, information is never destroyed. In principle, a burned book is just as readable as the original—if ...

At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

Physics is this close to understanding the entire universe. And what lives in this gap? Many physicists think it’s the ...

Investors fear the quantum concept as an unknown quantity, but once they analyse case studies around its transformative ...

A recent experiment at Fermilab has delivered intriguing results that challenge standard predictions, adding fuel to the ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

The search for quantum gravity is the next big step in physics, as researchers seek to unify the physics of the very small ...

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