If these knots had a slight bias toward matter over antimatter, their unraveling could help explain the matter-antimatter ...

Physicists propose that tangled cosmic “knots” formed after the Big Bang may explain why our universe is made of matter, not ...

In the quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe, physicists are revisiting a 150-year-old theory that could illuminate ...

Most explanations rely on "dark energy" to explain the Universe's accelerating expansion rate, but a new study takes a different path.

Scientists have been using complicated, hypothetical particles to explain the Big Bang, but this theory posits that a simpler ...

Modern multiverse fiction incorporates real physics equations and string theory principles rather than relying on pure ...

Electricity is the lifeblood of modern life, but even the most efficient power lines lose energy along the way. For decades, ...

This balance—neurons as the silent bee workers, waves as the queen’s rhythm holding the hive together—suggests consciousness ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

Deep under a mountain in Italy, researchers continue to push the boundaries of science with an experiment that could rewrite ...

Chen Ning Yang, a world-renowned and Nobel Prize-winning scientist who made revolutionary contributions to our understanding ...

Students and faculty of UC Santa Barbara’s physics department gathered in Corwin Pavilion for the department’s annual Nobel Prize-focused colloquium on Oct. 14. This year’s event was particularly spec ...