It feels so obvious that time moves forward that questioning it can seem almost pointless.

Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.

A new theory suggests the universe’s greatest secrets are hiding in a “zeptouniverse” that’s ready to be explored—without ...

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Researchers from around the world have sought to answer important questions about the most basic laws of physics that govern our universe. Their experiment, the Majorana Demonstrator, has helped to ...

If true, the idea would blow past one of physics’ most sacred limits: that parallel versions of reality can never talk to each other. And if information could leak between outcomes, it could mean ...

Curious Kids is a series for children in which we ask experts to answer questions from kids. What is the smallest thing in the universe that actually exists? – Mimi, 12, Abeokuta, Nigeria To find an ...

Physicists have been puzzling over conflicting observational results pertaining to the accelerating expansion rate of our Universe—a major discovery recognized by the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. New ...

“For the last 20 years, people believed that the cosmological constant is positive, and the universe will expand forever,” says Tye, a professor emeritus at Cornell. A positive constant acts like a ...

The “horizon” he points to isn’t a doorway to the divine, other scientists say. Yet, modern physics has been trying to answer questions once left to religion.

In our three-dimensional space, elementary particles neatly filter into either bosons or fermions. But in lower dimensions, that distinction gets a bit murky.