Stephen Hawking's profound insight reveals that imperfection is the universe's fundamental operating principle, not a flaw.

A growing body of theoretical and experimental work in physics is converging on a striking possibility: time, the dimension humans experience as a constant forward flow, may not be a fundamental ...

Hubble tension reveals discrepancies in cosmic expansion rates, leading to investigations of rotating universes and their ...

To highlight how women are pushed aside, I’ve compiled a list of 17 awesome women whose accomplishments were stolen by men. These pioneering women serve as ...

Proposals offering alternatives to Einstein’s relativistic theory of gravitation are almost as old as the theory itself. Einstein even saw them as the beginning of a path that could lead to quantum ...

The results reveal that our universe is reverberating with cosmic collisions. Some of the waves stem from pairs of black ...

Researchers from Columbia University and Breakthrough Listen, a scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of civilizations beyond Earth, have published new results from the Breakthrough ...

Neutron stars are ultra-dense remnants of massive stars that collapsed after supernova explosions and are made up mostly of subatomic particles with no electric charge (i.e., neutrons). When two ...

Numerical relativity uses supercomputers to simulate conditions occuring at the start of the universe, answering some of the ...

Last year, our most detailed map of the universe yet suggested our understanding of dark energy has been wrong for decades. The shock result is reigniting the search for a better cosmic story ...

In his classic science-fiction story “The New Accelerator,” published in 1901, H. G. Wells describes a drug that speeds up a person’s metabolism by a factor of 1,000. For the two protagonists who ...

I recently heard Elon Musk say that saving for retirement is irrelevant because, with the increasing use of AI and robotics, ...