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The search for quantum gravity is the next big step in physics, as researchers seek to unify the physics of the very small ...

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

All fundamental forces operating on astronomical scales exhibit a decrease in strength with increasing distance. A hypothetical force, decreasing with distance slower than the inverse square law, ...

(Inside Science) — An enzyme in the bacterium E. coli made more errors copying synthetic DNA when exposed to zero gravity than the same enzyme did in normal gravity, a recent study finds. The paper ...

A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum world. However, the new theory remains far from being proven observationally.

In a breakthrough discovery that challenges the conventional understanding of cosmology, scientists have unearthed new evidence that could reshape our perception of the cosmos. New research shows that ...

If, for some reason, we as a society executed villains by firing them into the Sun, this is how an astronomers says we would ...

The prevailing assumption has been that Einstein's theory of gravity must be modified, or 'quantized', in order to fit within quantum theory. This is the approach of two leading candidates for a ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has been confounding scientists since it began unexpectedly accelerating, but the cause likely isn't alien engines.

Quanta Magazine: Stacy McGaugh, professor and chair of the Department of Astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences, discussed an alternative theory of gravity—a tweaked version of Einstein’s ...