A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

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 ...

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s ...

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

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the dreams of science fiction enthusiasts when he began to study the limits of ...

Neil Turok's tour through the physics of the universe, as best we understand it right now, is rather seductive. His writing style is easy, his sense of humour is gentle, and his personal revelations ...

What if the bridge between our worlds isn’t language at all, but physics? In a recent episode of SETI Live, theoretical physicist Dr. Daniel Whiteson, co-author of Do Aliens Speak Physics?: And Other ...

Edwin Hubble's discovery of an expanding universe, when coupled with a quest to locate the 'center of mass' of the universe leads to shocking revelations. The most important discovery about the ...

*Originally published on Nov. 14, 2023. Stephon Alexander grew up in a musical family in the Bronx. It was expected he would follow in their footsteps. But reading comic books where superheroes and ...

Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discovering that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace, a stunning revelation that suggests the cosmos will eventually ...