A Growing Mystery The discovery of the Universe’s accelerating expansion in 1998 left scientists scratching their heads, ...

The idea was first hypothesized about 70 years ago. In a bizarre repercussion of Albert Einstein's Special Theory of ...

A long-elusive "theory of everything" may finally be within reach as Finnish researchers unveil a new quantum theory of ...

A bold new quantum theory of gravity may finally bridge the long-standing rift between Einstein’s general relativity and ...

Einstein’s strangest optical illusion has been captured—thanks to lasers, a cube, and a bit of artistic inspiration.

The universe is decaying much faster than thought. This is shown by calculations of scientists on the so-called Hawking radiation. They calculate that the last stellar remnants take about 10^78 years ...

A team of physicists has uncovered a surprising new way to explore one of science's greatest challenges: uniting the two ...

Scientists have found that the universe’s decay rate is much faster than previously thought. A team of three scientists from ...

The universe is decaying much faster than thought. This is shown by calculations of three Dutch scientists on the so-called ...

The universe is a strange, beautiful place—rich with possibilities and governed by the odd rules of quantum mechanics. One of ...

Quantum ideas describe particles and fields in tiny packages, but general relativity paints gravity as smooth curves in space ...

New research challenges the long-accepted notion of singularities in black holes — the point where physics allegedly breaks ...