The geometry of space, the setting in which physical laws operate, may hold clues to some of the biggest unanswered questions in fundamental physics. The underlying structure of spacetime itself could ...

A longstanding question has lingered over physics labs and philosophy departments alike: could our universe be nothing more ...

Researchers from around the world have sought to answer important questions about the most basic laws of physics that govern our universe. Their experiment, the Majorana Demonstrator, has helped to ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

Encouraged by successes in understanding black holes, theoretical physicists are applying what they’ve learned to whole ...

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 1919, physicist Theodor Kaluza hypothesized that extra dimensions might solve some outstanding problems in physics. And ...

A physicist claims consciousness is a universal field rather than a product of the brain, suggesting it may explain ...

A new study claims to show evidence of gamma-ray emissions that closely resemble those expected from two weakly interacting ...

Fundamental questions that particle physicists have pondered for decades might be answered when a $9.2 million neutron physics beam line is built at the Department of Energy’s Spallation Neutron ...

A quarter of a century ago a conjec­ture shook the world of theoretical physics. It had the aura of revelation. “At first, we had a magical statement ... almost out of nowhere,” says Mark Van ...

UChicago physics Prof. Bonnie Fleming, who is also the chief research officer at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is ...