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

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

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 ...

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In modern physics, the Higgs boson is famous for giving particles their mass. But a new study suggests an entirely different ...

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

Scientists have created the first-ever simulation that models every one of the Milky Way’s 100 billion stars, using AI to run ...

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

Dark matter may be invisible, but scientists are getting closer to understanding whether it follows the same rules as ...

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

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