Inside some very special black holes, there may be a boundary called a Cauchy horizon. Columnist Leah Crane explores the ...

A quiet revolution is taking shape in the world of physics, and it doesn’t rely on exotic particles or massive particle colliders. Instead, it begins with something much more familiar—sound.

The rules governing gravity and other laws of nature seem like eternal truths, but cosmologist João Magueijo has always ...

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A new study links the universe’s expansion to quantum topology, suggesting that hidden mathematical structures may stabilize the cosmological constant in ways previously unrecognized.

The universe, with its vastness and complexity, continues to confound scientists. Recently, the detection of anomalous particles has pointed towards even more mysteries waiting to be unravelled. These ...

How Albert Einstein thought he had found the fatal flaw in quantum theory, because it implies that sub-atomic particles can communicate faster than light. Jim Al-Khalili investigates the most accurate ...

Imagine standing on a vast, flat desert floor under a perfect early‑morning sky, only to see massive rocks seemingly slide across the barren ground, leaving long trails behind them as if some ...

A proposed experiment that would involve trapping atoms on a two-layered laser grid could be used to study the mechanism behind high-temperature superconductivity. Developed by physicists in Germany ...

From the early scattering experiments of Rutherford to the colliding beam experiments that produced the top quark with a mass almost as large as Rutherford's gold nucleus, particle beams have been the ...