In the quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe, physicists are revisiting a 150-year-old theory that could illuminate ...

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

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.

Physicists have been chasing one of the universe’s strangest mysteries—neutrinos, nearly invisible particles that zip through ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

Modern multiverse fiction incorporates real physics equations and string theory principles rather than relying on pure ...

Japanese physicists have demonstrated for the first time that knotoid structures—stable knots—can naturally form within a ...

Most explanations rely on "dark energy" to explain the Universe's accelerating expansion rate, but a new study takes a different path.

In many ways, Lina and Neriman's refugee journey from Iraq to Utah parallels that of a cosmic ray: covering great distances, ...

Below the waves of the Mediterranean, Europe's KM3NeT neutrino telescope is on a cosmic hunt. Towering strings of sensors ...

Brown University physics Prof. Stephon Alexander spoke on how the analysis of musical elements can help astrophysicists understand patterns of the universe in his lecture “The Jazz of Physics” ...