"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

Earlier this year, new research suggested a potential solution to one of the most troubling aspects of modern physics — that ...

Vera Cooper grew up gazing at the night sky from the window of a D.C. townhouse in the 1930s, when her teachers told the ...

However, although photons of light existed since the first second after the Big Bang, they could not yet shine across the ...

In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating ...

All of the healthcare professions are crying out for regulatory reform, says Kevin Lewis – when will it be dentistry's turn?

Brian Schmidt explains dark energy’s role in accelerating universe expansion, 1998 discovery’s impact, and urges students to ...

New evidence suggests the universe might not behave as expected, raising questions about the costs of being wrong.

Almost certainly there won’t be a bottoming out, or else there won’t be an after. It’s a certainty that we’re going through all this blind. It doesn’t really matter if we elected him or not at this ...

In a quiet part of Northern California, where pine trees brush the sky and the hum of giant satellite dishes fills the air, something big is happening in science education. A new wave of college ...

Brian Schmidt, along with Adam Riess and Saul Perlmutter, discovered dark energy in 1998, revealing that the universe's expansion is accelerating. Dark energy, unlike dark matter, pushes the universe ...

The concept of a rotating universe may hold the key to understanding dark energy and our position within the multiverse.