Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

The natural complexity of the universe should phase out the possibility of some advanced civilization controlling reality itself, researchers argue.

Can physics predict the future? This video explores the concept of predictability in the universe, starting with the ...

As a physics major, I didn’t have much experience with electronics,” said Spinola Castro. “However, over the course of the summer I realized how much I really liked building these things and ...

On July 4, 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland announced with great fanfare that they had ...

This idea was once thought to lie beyond the reach of scientific inquiry,” said physicist Mir Faizal of the University of British Columbia.

In the words of Dr. Lawrence M. Krauss, space and time cannot contain the fundamental laws of physics because they generate ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find ...

When I introduced Steven Pinker, it felt like our worldviews couldn't have been more different. Here's why that dissonance was exactly the point.

Dark energy and black holes are two of the most mysterious topics when it comes to space, but they might actually be linked. And causing the universe to expand.

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a new way to investigate dark matter by studying faint radio waves from the Universe’s earliest era, known as the cosmic dark ages. Their research ...