At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

The briefing book of the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics was published in October. Paris Sphicas ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

On July 4, 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland announced with great fanfare that they had ...

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

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, ...

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

Physics is this close to understanding the entire universe. And what lives in this gap? Many physicists think it’s the ...

From Fundamental Concepts to Dynamical Mechanisms, by Wolfgang Bietenholz and Uwe-Jens Wiese, Cambridge University Press.

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, scientists have recreated "cosmic fireballs" here on Earth in a particle accelerator.The ...

Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of ...

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 ...