This summer, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) took a breath of fresh air. Normally filled with beams of protons, the 27-km ring was reconfigured to enable its first oxygen–oxygen and neon–neon ...

A Belgian priest came up with the Big Bang almost a century ago—but he also wanted to keep science and faith as separate as ...

Scientific research was suppressed for decades in Maoist China, Stalin's Russia, and Nazi Germany. This seriously held back ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...

In a recent experiment, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN produced particles believed to have only existed in the ...

A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first ...

A research team proposes utilizing numerical relativity, a computational technique for solving Einstein's equations in high-gravity environments, to investigate the universe's origin. The approach ...

Nerd has been part of our lexicon for three-quarters of a century, its geeky meaning embodied by some of the most ...

Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Cartwright will play Kyle, a comic book nerd and daily patron of Stuart’s comic book store, while ...

Since the pilot episode of The Big Bang Theory, it's impossible not to be drawn to Sheldon Cooper's gravitational pull. Even when he's infuriatingly arrogant, cringingly tactless, or socially clueless ...

Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Penny (Kaley Cuoco) standing in the doorway of the apartment while Penny looks confused in The Big Bang Theory Image via CBS In the beginning was the Big Bang, followed by ...