The story opens with a scene both familiar and deceptively simple: physicists once again interrogating the fabric of reality, ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

Curiosity, collaboration and a passion for discovering how the universe works have propelled this rising astrophysicist onto ...

UChicago physics Prof. Bonnie Fleming, who is also the chief research officer at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is ...

A quarter of a century ago a conjec­ture shook the world of theoretical physics. It had the aura of revelation. “At first, we had a magical statement ... almost out of nowhere,” says Mark Van ...

Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its ...

In 1919, physicist Theodor Kaluza hypothesized that extra dimensions might solve some outstanding problems in physics. And ...

In the early universe, moments after the Big Bang and cosmic inflation, clusters of exotic, massive particles could have ...

Researchers from around the world have sought to answer important questions about the most basic laws of physics that govern our universe. Their experiment, the Majorana Demonstrator, has helped to ...

Albert Einstein’s 1950 letter to Robert S. Marcus, written after the death of Marcus’s son, contains one of his most reflective statements on human interconnectedness. In it, he describes the belief ...

I think my favorite line in Tony Kushner's theatrical masterpiece, Angels in America, is "In this world, there is a kind of painful progress." It somehow encapsulates, in just 10 words, the odyssey of ...

Two sets of cosmic discoveries have garnered the 2019 Nobel Prize in physics. Half of the prize of 9 million Swedish kronor (about $900,000) goes to James Peebles of Princeton University, who ...