It is almost 100 years since scientists discovered the universe is expanding. In the decades that followed, the accuracy of ...

A recent breakthrough has paved the way for timekeeping even more precise than the measurements performed by atomic clocks.

Simple words like "force" and "particle" can mislead us as to what reality is actually like. Physicist Matt Strassler unpacks ...

For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the ...

The swirling colors and flowing brushstrokes of Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night have secured the painting (and its artist) a ...

A new catalog providing information on millions of distant galaxies, which determines their distances with unprecedented ...

Scientists have finally figured out a way to connect the dots between the macroscopic and the microscopic worlds. Their ...

In a groundbreaking development, scientists have successfully established a mathematical link between Einstein's theory of ...

A possible crack in the standard model of particle physics seems to be shrinking ... our best picture of how the universe’s particles and forces interact, suggesting physicists may have missed ...

A theory known as non-singular matter bouncing cosmology suggests that the universe “bounces” between a hot big bang era and ...

In this presentation, I will discuss the physics of exotic isotopes in the "island of inversion ... a potential essential to understand the smallest scales of the universe, such as subatomic particles ...

The physics of the universe at this time is surprisingly simple, so we can make robust predictions about the properties of ...