Newton was more than just the brainiac behind gravity – turns out, he had a closet full of quirks. He was a bit of an ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

A curated list of five deeply moving and thought-provoking books personally recommended by Benedict Cumberbatch that truly ...

After years of preparation, U.K. astronomers are celebrating a major milestone as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals its first dazzling images of the night sky. This marks the beginning of the most ...

The Big Bang model begins with a point of infinite density where the laws of physics break down. This is a deep theoretical problem that suggests the beginning of the Universe is not fully understood, ...

Scientists from the CMS collaboration at CERN have measured the speed of sound in the quark-gluon plasmas with record ...

Providing capabilities found nowhere else in the world as it probes the physics behind magnetic reconnection, the Facility ...

Predicted by Einstein and dismissed as undetectable, gravitational waves were finally heard in 2016. Now, with observatories ...

Silver-110’s decay reveals a promising path to measure antineutrino mass. New data could reshape future neutrino studies.

The Big Bang may mark an end—not the start—of a previous universe's aeon. Penrose's theory sees the universe as an eternal ...

Consciousness gives rise to a sense of self and personal agency. The question is, how do biological processes give rise to ...

The arrow of time can teach us more about how the universe began – and how it will end, says quantum columnist Karmela ...