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

On January 22, 2025, physicists unveiled a groundbreaking discovery that could revolutionize our understanding of the ...

Kellogg Stelle was a professor of physics at Imperial College London for decades until his death last month. In 1977, he developed a particle theory of gravity that’s renormalizable, but the theory’s ...

Quantum theory has been remarkably successful ever since its inception 100 years ago. And yet, there is a glaring mismatch between the discrete, quantum nature of matter and the apparent continuous, ...

Scientists in Greece have laid out a mathematical framework to help explain a so-far-unsolved gap in our understanding of how ...

A recent experiment at Fermilab has delivered intriguing results that challenge standard predictions, adding fuel to the ...

Physics is this close to understanding the entire universe. And what lives in this gap? Many physicists think it’s the ...

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

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 ...

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

Astronomers from the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) and colleagues have determined how ...

When we think creatively, produce novel ideas, or otherwise have “Eureka” moments, we may actually unlock access to a ...