physics

And if so, would we be reckless deities?

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

A groundbreaking experiment proves a key tenet of Einstein’s theory of gravity. 

This polymath’s papers—full of personal and scientific revelations—have joined the World Register.

Edward Witten is a genius among geniuses.

The Flat Earth theory has gained a surprising amount of traction in recent years, thanks largely to YouTube. What exactly do Flat Earthers believe?

The most influential contemporary scientists and their accomplishments.

Is consciousness everywhere? Is it a basic feature of the Universe, at the very heart of the tiniest subatomic particles? Such an idea – panpsychism as it is known – […]

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think,” Albert Einstein said. So go back to school, Ivy League style.

Wow. Reading Hawking’s Ph.D. paper is like listening to Pink Floyd for decades and then suddenly finding out they had a different and even more groundbreaking debut album. 

One prominent mathematician asks: was Einstein such a smartypants after all?

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

Einstein believed in the unseen—like gravitational waves, ripples in space and time. Now, we can see this, as shown by the 2017 Nobel Prize physics winners.

These scientists scooped up the Nobel by detecting a ripple in space-time.

In 1936, a school girl named Phyllis wrote a letter to Albert Einstein to ask whether a person could believe in both science and religion. He was quick to reply.

They’re 3 billion light years away, but their collision can lead to answers to really big questions.

Albert Einstein’s famous thought experiments led to groundbreaking ideas.

Lord Martin Rees, a world-leading cosmologist, explains the possibility of multiverse theory. “It’s speculative, it’s exciting science, and it may be true.”

Northwestern University researchers discover the unexpected origins of half the atoms in our bodies.

Researchers succeed in an 80-year-old quest to find the elusive “angel particle”.

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

Theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence M. Krauss spoke at CSICon 2016 about scientists’ attempt to look back in time to the beginning of our universe.

Chinese scientists accomplish the feat of teleporting a photon to a satellite hundreds of miles above Earth.

A new study challenges what we understand about the workings of time.

LHC researchers discover a double-heavy set of quarks that may reveal new insights into the strong force.

A popular physicist shares why he believes that the deepest nature of reality is hidden from us.

There’s something all of us—physicists included—are getting wrong about dark matter, says Neil deGrasse Tyson.

A study on the strange Cold Spot in space may prove that we live in a multiverse.

Physics finds no trace of God so far—but does it matter?

Scientists create a superfluid with negative mass that accelerates backwards.