Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

Depending on how you look at it, the universe might not have an "end," after all. Whether the universe will "end" at all is ...

For more than a century, physicists have suspected that the familiar three dimensions of space and one of time might be only ...

Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest ...

We can't see dark matter directly, so studying it pushes the boundaries of our creativity as scientists. How exciting, says ...

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

I keep coming back to a strange idea: what if everything we know about quantum physics is already encoded inside a single atom? Not in a mystical sense, but in the very real way that one tiny system ...

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

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

Hundreds of billions of galaxies are estimated to exist in the universe, each an island of stars, gas, and dust with dark matter in the vast cosmic expanse, each one unique. It is this diversity that ...

Deep in the heart of the matter, some numbers don't add up. For example, while protons and neutrons are made of quarks, ...