In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

A balloon drifting 37 kilometers above Antarctica once caught a whisper from the ice that should never have been heard. In ...

The geometry of space, where physical laws unfold, may also hold answers to some of the deepest questions in fundamental ...

The late physicist the medal to the university where he proposed a groundbreaking idea that would change scientists' ...

The search for quantum gravity is the next big step in physics, as researchers seek to unify the physics of the very small ...

A recent experiment at Fermilab has delivered intriguing results that challenge standard predictions, adding fuel to the ...

A new theory-based approach provides access to the minute transverse motion of quarks within protons. Nuclear physicists have developed a new theoretical framework that allows them to calculate a ...

The scientists, from Spain and Germany, say the current standard model of physics cannot explain everything we see in the universe ...

When we think creatively, produce novel ideas, or otherwise have “Eureka” moments, we may actually unlock access to a ...

Ars Technica: The Voyager Golden Record is perhaps the best known example of humans attempting to communicate with an alien species, spearheaded by the late Carl Sagan, among others. But what are the ...

CERN and its partners in Europe and worldwide are currently working to identify the next collider that would succeed the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) after the latter reaches the end of operations in ...

Physicists at UC Santa Cruz will receive $555,000 of that to develop a literal gem of a monitoring system that such power plants will need to safely generate fusion energy—a system that incorporates ...