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Yes, the Universe is expanding, but you might wonder, “How fast is it expanding?”

If we are wreaking havoc on ourselves and the world, it is because we have become mesmerized by a mechanistic, reductionist way of thinking.

How can researchers map something as complex as the human brain?

Physicists propose using time crystals to bring about a quantum computing revolution.

Grandfathers, take heart. You’ll survive the paradox that’s been gunning for you since the 1930s.

If you think ‘particles are matter’ and ‘antiparticles are antimatter,’ think again. In this Universe, there are certain rules that have never been observed to be broken. Some of these […]

If you want to understand what the Universe is, how it began, evolved, and will eventually end, astrophysics is the only way to go.

These are the top advances in technology that will impact the world in the coming decade.

The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.

They say that atoms are mostly 99.99999% empty space. But quantum physics says otherwise. If you were to look at what your body is made of, at smaller and more […]

Black holes are the darkest objects of all. But are they made of dark matter? When it comes to the Universe, few objects are more compelling, fascinating, or extreme than black […]

Particle physics needs a new collider to supersede the Large Hadron Collider. Muons, not electrons or protons, might hold the key.

It should be just as sticky (or non-sticky) as normal matter. Here’s how we know. Not only here on Earth, but everywhere in the Universe that we look, we find structures […]

It’s a pipe dream that violates the laws of physics, and not even quantum mechanics can give us a way out. One of the most fundamental rules of physics, undisputed since […]

Is that required for detectors like LIGO and Virgo to work? Whenever any two things in the Universe interact at the same location in spacetime, one thing always remains true about […]

It might not feel that way, but a 95% dark Universe really is the best game in town. No matter how much we might try and hide it, there’s an enormous […]

We need more and better data to know, but that’s exactly what’s coming. Over the past few decades, a number of important advances have helped revolutionize our picture of the Universe. […]

All the things that surround us and make us up weren’t always here. But where did it all come from? The Universe, as we see it today, sure is full of […]

Sir Roger Penrose claims our Universe has been through multiple Big Bangs, with more coming — a claim that is not widely accepted within the cosmology community.

Physics demands that it couldn’t be any other way. Here’s why. Ask anyone — even someone with no background in science — to name something that Einstein did, and odds are they’ll come back with […]

There’s some amazing science happening at the South Pole, but some very grandiose claims being made. What’s actually going on? For some of us, the idea of parallel Universes spark our […]

We frequently say it’s 2.725 K: from the light left over all the way from the Big Bang. But that’s not all that’s in the Universe.

Why do we deprive students of the historical and cultural context of science?

Study shows ripples across a newly fertilized egg are similar to ocean and atmospheric circulations.

There’s a lot we can do with current technology to help stem the tide of climate change, but future technology may help even more.

A black woman most have never heard of made GPS possible. Over the span of a single lifetime, the world has changed in ways that would have been virtually unimaginable […]

Known as primordial black holes, they could thoroughly change our Universe’s history. But the evidence is strongly against them.

The outer edges of a black hole might be “fuzzy” instead of neat and smooth.

If you think it’s just three quarks held together by gluons, you’ll want to read this. At a fundamental level, the Universe is composed of indivisible particles. From macroscopic scales down […]

And can scientists even agree on what ‘nothing’ means? The more curious we get about the great cosmic unknowns, the more unanswered questions our investigations of the Universe will reveal. […]