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

Researchers at CERN may be on the verge of explaining the universe’s missing gamma rays and hidden magnetic fields.

Last time I wrote about new data that overturns the standard cosmological model. Before anyone starts dusting off their ...

Our solar system appears to be breaking the cosmic speed limit, casting fresh doubt on the Standard Model of Cosmology.

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

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

For decades, scientists have believed that the Universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating pace due to a mysterious force ...

In modern physics, the Higgs boson is famous for giving particles their mass. But a new study suggests an entirely different ...

The standard interpretation of a null state, or empty state, posits it as devoid of structure. This paper introduces a ...

A new theory claims dark matter and dark energy don’t exist — they’re just side effects of the universe’s changing forces. By ...

OpenAI announced GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking on Wednesday, the latest models that power ChatGPT. GPT-5.1 Instant is ...

Twin black hole collisions detected in 2024 have provided the sharpest-ever test of Einstein’s theory while revealing new details about how black holes form and spin.