The mysteries surrounding the origins of the universe have long intrigued scientists and philosophers alike. New research, ...
Quantum theory fails to explain how the reality we experience emerges from the world of particles. A new take on quantum ...
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Cosmic puzzle

India’s scientific community has quietly handed the world one of its most intriguing puzzles: a massive, elegantly structured spiral galaxy that existed when the universe was barely 1.5 billion years ...
For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, perfectly described on cosmic scales yet refusing to mesh with the quantum rules that govern everything else. A growing camp ...
Marika Taylor currently receives funding from EPSRC, STFC, UK government deparments and the European Horizon programme. In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the ...
In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called "Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?" Forty-five years later, ...
Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Adam Ginsburg (University of Florida), Nazar Budaiev (University of Florida), Taehwa Yoo (University of Florida); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) In 1980, Stephen ...
Analysis: There are gazillions of different possible universes that can be described and understood using the tools provided by string theory If we look out into the sky on a clear night, all we see ...
In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called “Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?” Hawking, who later became my ...
Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...
There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the ...
A new mathematical model of a wormhole suggests that two black holes can be “cut and pasted.” Cut and paste is an official ...