Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

Mind = blown.

An old puzzle in particle physics has been solved: How can quantum field theories be best formulated on a lattice to ...

Electrons are usually described as particles, but in a rare quantum material, that picture completely breaks down ...

When molecular biologist Francis Crick tripped on the psychedelic drug LSD in 1953, his mind famously pulled together all of his previous research on human DNA to conceive of the image of a double ...

For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other.

An obscure theory of elementary particles proved to be key to China’s re-emergence as a scientific nation after the Cultural ...

In the quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe, physicists are revisiting a 150-year-old theory that could illuminate why matter prevails over antimatter. This knot hypothesis, originally ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

In this 2011 image, a NASA engineer looks on as the first six of the James Webb Space Telescope's 18 mirror segments are prepped to begin their final cryogenic testing. Engineers spent three decades ...

Foundations in science and physics exist at the very core of the Netflix's hit show “Stranger Things," demonstrating to audiences for over a decade that our universe may be "stranger" than we care to ...

Research led by scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and ...