Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the dreams of science fiction enthusiasts when he began to study the limits of ...

Astronomers have proposed a new theory to suggest why our universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. That our universe is expanding is in wide agreement, though how exactly that process happens is ...

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...

The universe is expanding faster and faster, but not all scientists agree that dark energy is the cause. Perhaps, instead, our universe keeps colliding with and absorbing smaller 'baby universes,' a ...

Google on Monday announced Willow, its latest, greatest quantum computing chip. The speed and reliability performance claims Google’s made about this chip were newsworthy in themselves, but what ...

But outside of the lab, the everyday world doesn’t behave this way. Planets, stars, and even cats don’t appear in multiple states at once. The universe follows predictable rules, behaving classically ...

Galaxy NGC 6822, neighbouring the Milky Way galaxy, being studied to learn more about stars and dust in the early universe. Credit: NASA/James Webb Space Telescope Galaxy NGC 6822, neighbouring the ...