New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black ...

A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery ...

Physicists predict the universe’s expansion will reverse, ending in a dramatic big crunch about 20 billion years from now.

Discovered in 2012, the Higgs boson is vital for understanding mass in particle physics, confirming decades of theoretical ...

Astronomers have long thought the universe should look generally the same in every direction, but an anomaly in the radiation ...

What if the universe remembers? A bold new framework proposes that spacetime acts as a quantum memory. For over a hundred ...

Virtual particles may not be real, but they help physicists track how forces move, and allow for incredibly precise ...

For more than three decades, the scientific consensus on the composition of the universe has rested on a foundation both elegant and perplexing: that roughly 95% of all that exists is made up of ...

Scientists have long embraced the fact that forces beyond sight govern the universe. Dark matter, they think, holds galaxies together with extra gravity, and dark energy drives the universe’s ...

A recent paper has proposed a new idea for what is causing the observed accelerated expansion of the universe, and dark ...

A study from Rice University, published in PRX Quantum, has found that energy transfers more quickly between molecular sites ...