For close to a century, scientists have been trying to marry Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and quantum theory—our two best bets on understanding the universe on a macroscopic and ...

Venus spins slowly, yet its upper atmosphere races around the planet at roughly 220 miles per hour, a supercharged jet stream that has puzzled scientists for decades. Now a new line of research argues ...

Fundamental physics faces a stubborn paradox: the current impossibility of reconciling the rules of the quantum world with ...

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists have demonstrated that black holes satisfy the third law of ...

Rybicki, M. (2025) Black Hole as a Topological Hole in the Fabric of Spacetime. Journal of Modern Physics, 16, 1799-1817. doi ...

ICSE Physics Specimen Paper 2026 for Class 10: The ICSE Class 10 Physics Exam 2026 (Science Paper 1) is scheduled to be held on 9 March 2026. As Physics is one of the most scoring yet concept-heavy ...

Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging ...