Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

Cosmic strings and Einstein’s relativity raise the theoretical possibility of time travel within modern physics.

For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other.

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope was used to create the largest, highest resolution map of dark matter, just ...

A decades-old idea is quietly regaining attention in theoretical physics: ancient structures embedded in the universe’s ...

One of the most striking outcomes of the surface-minimization framework is its ability to explain structural features that ...

Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at ...

Several years ago, scientists discovered that a single microscopic particle could rock back and forth on its own under a ...

Readers interested in science fiction grounded in real scientific inquiry can now follow the public development of Revelation ...

Scientists didn’t understand why independently oscillating microscopic particles suddenly begin moving in perfect sync when grouped together. Researchers showed that fluid-driven hydrodynamic ...

The new research demonstrates for the first time that the wave nature of matter persists even at large scales, using massive ...