For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, resisting every attempt to merge Einstein’s smooth ...

Contemporary physics has learned to describe the universe with unprecedented precision. Yet when it tries to say what time is, it stumbles again and ...

Physicists are quietly rolling out a new generation of simulation codes that promise to do more than crunch numbers. By ...

The Linac Coherent Light Source in California has been firing record-breaking X-ray pulses for years, but now it’s due for a ...

Neutron stars explained through stellar remnants and collapsed stars, revealing extreme density, gravity, magnetism, and ...

Searches for dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative with their ideas.

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.

These low-tech systems offer cheap, long-duration storage with minimal degradation, using abundant materials and basic ...

People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

Scientists still struggle to understand consciousness, aging, memory formation and why humans hiccup or yawn, revealing a ...

Science has never been the pristine, market-free ideal many imagine. It has always lived – sometimes uneasily – within a ...