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

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 ...

Recent discoveries in cosmology have left scientists scratching their heads, as they challenge our fundamental understanding ...

Sarah Wild talks to astronomers across the world who are on a hunt for a subtle hydrogen signal that could confirm or disprove our ideas on the universe’s evolution ...

Chris Neu studies dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider, bringing big ideas to his classroom and students into his lab.

In this episode we explore the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, a decades-long effort to build the most ambitious ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a user facility for nuclear physics research operated by the U.S.

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

In the blink of an eye after the Big Bang, the universe could have birthed strange new stars and black holes.

The Euclid telescope launched in 2023, hitching a ride on SpaceX's Falcon 9 to study the cosmos from the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, 1.5 million kilometers (932,000 miles) from Earth. Its job is a big ...

Quark-gluon plasma, a bizarre state of matter that mimics the early cosmos, is the hottest thing ever made on Earth ...