After winning a Breakthrough Prize, the world’s most lucrative science award, theoretical physicist David Gross is using the ...

At long last, a unified theory combining gravity with the other fundamental forces—electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces—is within reach. Bringing gravity into the fold has been the ...

A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the Big Bang has always posed a problem. Physics can describe a great deal about the universe ...

For years, one tiny mismatch in particle physics carried outsized hopes. The muon, a heavier and short-lived cousin of the ...

The cosmological constant is the mathematical description of the energy that drives the ever-accelerating expansion of the ...

Once a baffling theory, quantum mechanics has evolved into a driving force behind modern technology and frontier research.

A new paper presents a take on the unified theory of general relativity and quantum physics that, sadly, goes nowhere. The paper is written largely by non-physicists and involves both incorrect terms ...

It has been over a century since the boom period of physics exploded with Albert Einstein, Max Planck and others, sending us spinning into a new world of chaos from our previously ordered universe.

Carlo Rovelli is a physicist at Aix–Marseille University, Marseille, France, and an associate member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy in London, Ontario, Canada. Nature seems to have played us ...

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