In an unprecedented step, researchers crafted a detailed model compatible with the universe’s accelerated expansion.

You may think of physics as a way to explain the behaviors of things like black holes, colliding particles, falling apples, and quantum computers. But a small group physicists today is working on a ...

Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something the universe simply hands to particles, a property encoded in equations rather than explained from first principles. A new proposal argues that ...

In the quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe, physicists are revisiting a 150-year-old theory that could illuminate why matter prevails over antimatter. This knot hypothesis, originally ...

Welcome, everybody to what is the first ever — the inaugural episode — of the new Brandeis University podcast, "The Take: Big Ideas Explained in Under 5 Minutes," where professors explain core ...

Adapted excerpt from Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, by Sabine Hossenfelder. Copyright © 2018. Available from Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books ...

Quantum mechanics, the theory which rules the microworld of atoms and particles, certainly has the X factor. Unlike many other areas of physics, it is bizarre and counter-intuitive, which makes it ...

From theories of pedestrian movement and traffic flow to voting processes, economic markets and war, researchers are striving towards a physics of society People physics “It may be”, said US ...

A new study enhances hydrogen molecule predictions, achieving unprecedented precision in testing fundamental physics and ...

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