"The key result is that while many alternatives look very similar to the 'standard' black hole at today's image quality, the ...

Humanity has achieved remarkable feats, yet 95% of the universe remains invisible and unexplained. Our theories, general ...

Yet according to physics, information is never destroyed. In principle, a burned book is just as readable as the original—if ...

By transforming robot motion into a problem of relativistic geometry, scientists have created a control method that guides ...

Let’s rewind the clock back…oh, I don’t know, let’s say a hundred years. It was 1917, and Einstein had just developed his ...

If so, laws might change when the universe itself changes phase. In the early universe, as temperatures and densities shifted, forces split apart from a unified origin. What we call “laws” may be like ...

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

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

The way we speak about time tends to strongly imply that the passage of time is some sort of real process that happens out ...

The new study involved taking a fresh look at the "Altamura Man," which is an exceptionally well-preserved Neanderthal ...

Dark matter may be invisible, but scientists are getting closer to understanding whether it follows the same rules as ...