Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...
An old puzzle in particle physics has been solved: How can quantum field theories be best formulated on a lattice to ...
For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other.
An obscure theory of elementary particles proved to be key to China’s re-emergence as a scientific nation after the Cultural ...
Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...
When molecular biologist Francis Crick tripped on the psychedelic drug LSD in 1953, his mind famously pulled together all of his previous research on human DNA to conceive of the image of a double ...
In this 2011 image, a NASA engineer looks on as the first six of the James Webb Space Telescope's 18 mirror segments are prepped to begin their final cryogenic testing. Engineers spent three decades ...
A new unified theory connects two fundamental domains of modern quantum physics: It joins two opposite views of how a single ...
Physicists long believed time was a basic feature of the universe. But it may just emerge from cosmic information.
For decades, physicists have accepted that the universe has two sizes: small and large. So-called classical equations govern big objects like baseballs and galaxies, while quantum mechanics describes ...