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Edward Witten is a genius among geniuses.

There is however, at least one caveat.

The Big Bang happened everywhere at once, but stars are a different story. The Universe, back at its inception, was almost perfectly identical everywhere. It was the same high temperature […]

Researchers create a new form of matter, first theorized 50 years ago.

Representation matters. Meet five stellar women in physics who were unjustly denied their place in history. Nobel season is now over, with another year in the books of celebrating the scientists […]

The benefits of controlled psilocybin use and spiritual practice on people’s well-being long outlast the high, researchers find.

They make up 95% of our Universe today, but they weren’t always so important. One of the most puzzling mysteries about the Universe is simply, “where is everything?” All that […]

If nothing can escape from beneath the event horizon, where do these phenomena come from? The most important feature of a black hole is that it has an event horizon: a […]

Chemists are surprised to find that berkelium electrons seem to live outside of quantum mechanics.

Turns out, organisms may be using quantum mechanics to gain evolutionary advantages.   

Shortly after the Big Bang, the Universe became completely dark. The first stars, when they ignited, changed everything. For perhaps 100 million years, the Universe was devoid of stars. The […]

Physicists propose a new kind of space structure that can allow information to escape from black holes.

Or maybe it’s already begun.

If not for the indeterminate nature of matter, the Sun would never be able to shine. “The bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and quantum are […]

And you don’t even need a Delorean at 88 MPH. It’s one of the greatest tropes in movies, literature, and television shows: the idea that we could travel back in time […]

The secret behind the Em Drive’s thrust, which is real, may be in the long-discarded pilot wave theory.

History will remember Stephen Hawking for his many contributions to cosmology and astrophysics, but his beliefs about the future could soon prove just as important.

Inspired by Newton’s discoveries, the Clockwork Universe Theory was popular among deists.

It’s a fascinating idea, but how does it fare as a scientific theory? “Something is happening here and this is going to have an impact.” –Robert Dijkgraaf, on Verlinde’s work The […]

If you don’t learn this one lesson, you’ll not only never be good at science, you’ll never learn anything new. “Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong […]

It’s more accurate than an atomic clock, and would take thousands of years to lose a second. 

The hallmark of a good scientist is changing your mind when new evidence arises. Here’s what that looks like. Science, like many things in life, is always a work-in-progress. While a […]

CERN’s LHC has just found evidence of the odder on quasiparticle after a 44-year search.

The Large Hadron Collider allowed us to complete the Standard Model. Even so, what we have is incomplete. Here’s what could come next. The Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful […]

Cybersecurity costs billions of dollars each year. Building on a blockchain could solve many of our security problems.

It’s a lot more than just being unable to measure two things simultaneously. “In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist […]

If you haven’t finished your holiday shopping yet, consider these 10 gifts, good any time of year! One of the hardest things when it comes to holiday shopping is to find […]

The rate at which the Universe has expanding has changed tremendously in 13.8 billion years. So why do we call it the Hubble constant? The Universe is an enormous place, […]

Scientists discover a counterintuitive property of quantum particles called “backflow”.

If you thought all we could see is all that’s out there, prepare to rethink everything you knew. “It’s hard to build models of inflation that don’t lead to a multiverse. […]