At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

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

The late physicist the medal to the university where he proposed a groundbreaking idea that would change scientists' ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

An illustration conveying the idea of a space-based quantum internet, which would seem, like the hypothetical particle of a tachyon, to outpace light. An illustration ...

Scientists from around the world are at Brown to discuss what is known, and what needs to be learned, about the long-sought particle discovered a decade ago.

Jason Bono was one of the researchers behind a major scientific moment — when tiny particles unexpectedly unraveled one of the most important and successful theories in physics. Bono, who earned his ...

Ah, dark matter. Creator of the universe, sculptor of galaxies, great brewer of coffee (probably). There seems to be nothing it can’t do, or isn’t responsible for, but there’s just one problem: Where ...

Physics is this close to understanding the entire universe. And what lives in this gap? Many physicists think it’s the ...

Scientists have made a particle physics discovery that they say could mean nothing less than the upheaval of our entire model of the building blocks of the universe—if their results can be ...

Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime in motion to the period of newborn atomic nuclei known as primordial ...

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