Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

The theorized unseen structure of spacetime could also explain of the outstanding questions about the accelerating expansion ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something the universe simply hands to particles, a property encoded in ...

Inside the Large Hadron Collider, protons slam together at nearly the speed of light, creating a brief fireball of quarks and ...

In the future, quantum computers are anticipated to solve problems once thought unsolvable, from predicting the course of ...

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

Physicists are exploring whether hidden dimensions and the shape of space could help explain why fundamental particles have ...

An analysis of several experiments aimed at detecting the mysterious neutrino has identified a hint of a crack in the ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

How a rejected paper by Kolkata physicist Satyendra Nath Bose, backed by Albert Einstein, laid the scientific foundation for ...

Proton collisions at the LHC appear wildly chaotic, but new data reveal a surprising underlying order. The findings confirm that a basic rule of quantum mechanics holds true even in extreme particle ...