Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have confirmed the existence of a massless particle, long theorized ...

Many of the theories physicists rely on are incomplete, and until a flaw is found which can reveal new physics, the field is ...

A physicist proposes that consciousness is the fundamental basis of reality, with matter and spacetime emerging from it.

In this 2011 image, a NASA engineer looks on as the first six of the James Webb Space Telescope's 18 mirror segments are prepped to begin their final cryogenic testing. Engineers spent three decades ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

When molecular biologist Francis Crick tripped on the psychedelic drug LSD in 1953, his mind famously pulled together all of his previous research on human DNA to conceive of the image of a double ...

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 ...

At long last, a unified theory combining gravity with the other fundamental forces—electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces—is within reach. Bringing gravity into the fold has been the ...

There’s a lot of discussion about “time” in the world of quantum physics. At the micro level, where waves and particles can behave the same, time tends to be much more malleable than it is in our ...