"Precision in these measurements is critical, as even subtle discrepancies could signal deviations from the model — ...

Quantum theory and general relativity have long described the universe with incompatible languages, one speaking in ...

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

The geometry of space, the setting in which physical laws operate, may hold clues to some of the biggest unanswered questions in fundamental physics. The underlying structure of spacetime itself could ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

In the end, the Universe becomes a place where gravity and quantum physics slowly turn all mass into faint streams of particles.

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

In the early universe, moments after the Big Bang and cosmic inflation, clusters of exotic, massive particles could have ...

Researchers from around the world have sought to answer important questions about the most basic laws of physics that govern our universe. Their experiment, the Majorana Demonstrator, has helped to ...

UChicago physics Prof. Bonnie Fleming, who is also the chief research officer at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is the new IRL’s deputy director. Visiting scholar Cédric Cerna will serve as ...