Now, researchers in Switzerland and the U.K. have homed in on one particular aspect of this equation to contemplate how a ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have found that the quark-gluon ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

To reach this conclusion, the researchers examined the most basic form of entanglement between identical particles using the concept of nonlocality introduced by physicist John Bell. While ...

Foundations in science and physics exist at the very core of the Netflix's hit show “Stranger Things," demonstrating to audiences for over a decade that our universe may be "stranger" than we care to ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Even given a set of possible quantum states for our cosmos, it's impossible for us to determine which one of them is correct ...

The brightest quasar ever seen in the young cosmos is powered by a black hole that appears to be breaking the universe’s own ...

The six-year Dark Energy Survey has released its full results, showing that two leading models of cosmology are equally valid — but both fail to explain one key observation.

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

Doesn’t that just say that the edge of the observable universe is moving away from us at the speed of light? Which is what being the edge of the observable universe means? Click to expand... But doesn ...