Physicists have long struggled to unite quantum mechanics—the theory governing tiny particles—with Einstein’s theory of ...

Quote of the day by Newton: 1915 changed physics forever. In that year, Albert Einstein published the general theory of relativity and reshaped our understanding of gravity and spacetime. For 228 ...

Pushed down to a certain scale, the laws of physics seem to fall apart. Astrid Eichhorn, a leader in an area of study called asymptotic safety, thinks we just need to push a little further.

Some of the universe’s densest objects can twist, stretch, and resonate in ways that challenge even the most seasoned ...

A research team is using astrophysical explosions to understand the mysterious forces at work in some of the smallest building blocks in nature: atomic nuclei. In new research published in Nature ...

An overview of how Albert Einstein’s ideas changed our understanding of space, time, and energy, influencing modern physics and many technologies used today.

A new three-volume study explores how quantum physics, gravitation and cosmology may be understood within a unified ...

Cosmic voids may seem like the emptiest places in the universe, stripped of matter, radiation, and even dark matter. But they’re far from nothing. Even in these vast empty regions, the fundamental ...

Ashoke Sen might be one of the quietest geniuses in physics. Born in Kolkata in 1956, he grew up fascinated by abstract mathematics and theoretical pu.

Vijay Balasubramanian (University of Pennsylvania) emphasised that the challenge is not only reproducing the familiar area law – which links entropy to the area of the event horizon – but also ...

“The whole thing is very hypothetical at this point,” Stephen Hsu said of wormholes, a caution that still defines the subject even as the idea keeps resurfacing in serious physics. The appeal is ...

For decades, astronomers have used distant supernovae as cosmic lighthouses to test fundamental physics and to measure the ...