The late physicist the medal to the university where he proposed a groundbreaking idea that would change scientists' ...
Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...
Peter Higgs, the European scientist who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for describing the Higgs boson(Photo: AP) Peter Higgs, the European scientist who won the ...
One day after a conclave of cardinals in Rome determined, through mathematical means, the identity of a new pope, another conclave – this one comprised of physicists at the Alpine retreat of La Thuile ...
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 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 ...
Physics is this close to understanding the entire universe. And what lives in this gap? Many physicists think it’s the ...
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 ...
From its resting place outside Chicago, Illinois, a long-defunct experiment is threatening to throw the field of elementary particles off balance. Physicists have toiled for ten years to squeeze a ...