How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

Ghost particles' can zoom through you without a trace. Scientists are getting to the bottom of this cosmic mystery ...

Scientists from around the world are at Brown to discuss what is known, and what needs to be learned, about the long-sought particle discovered a decade ago.

Lithium-ion batteries power our phones, cars, and even homes; ensuring their safe and efficient behavior has become ...

Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang, who spent decades advancing physics in both the U.S. and China, died in Beijing on Saturday at ...

Dark energy and black holes are two of the most mysterious topics when it comes to space, but they might actually be linked. And causing the universe to expand.

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for ...

Japanese physicists have revived Kelvin’s old idea of cosmic knots, showing how these tangled fields might explain why matter ...

What if I told you that while you can't see dark matter, maybe you can hear it? I know, I know, it sounds crazy…and it is ...

Furniture shopping is now a minefield of particle board masquerading as quality, fast-fashion pieces meant to fall apart when ...

Understanding how matter reorganizes as its density increases is a central question in particle and condensed-matter physics. Yet in quantum systems governed by strong interactions, finding analytical ...

The ‘inflationary’ model of cosmology explains many large-scale features of the Universe as the result of a primordial period ...