Let’s rewind the clock back…oh, I don’t know, let’s say a hundred years. It was 1917, and Einstein had just developed his ...

Sarah Wild talks to astronomers across the world who are on a hunt for a subtle hydrogen signal that could confirm or disprove our ideas on the universe’s evolution ...

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 ...

Recent discoveries in cosmology have left scientists scratching their heads, as they challenge our fundamental understanding ...

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?

Physicists have uncovered a shocking twist in the fate of the universe—backed by real data and a precise timeline.

Chiara Caprini, member of the CERN Theoretical Physics department and one of COSMOMAG’s four Principal Investigators. (Image: Tristan Paviot) The first few microseconds of our Universe remain somewhat ...

The COSMOMAG project, led by four Principal Investigators including CERN cosmologist Chiara Caprini, has received an ERC Synergy Grant to investi ...

Six Durham researchers have earned a place on one of the world's most respected research rankings. Professors Carlos Frenk, ...

Six Durham researchers have earned a place on one of the world’s most respected research rankings. Professors Carlos Frenk, Adrian Jenkins, Tom Theuns, and the late Richard Bower from our Department ...

The Franklin Institute announced Nov. 11 that it is awarding the 2026 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, one of the nation’s ...