If true, the idea would blow past one of physics’ most sacred limits: that parallel versions of reality can never talk to ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

An old puzzle in particle physics has been solved: How can quantum field theories be best formulated on a lattice to ...

When molecular biologist Francis Crick tripped on the psychedelic drug LSD in 1953, his mind famously pulled together all of his previous research on human DNA to conceive of the image of a double ...

Right now, molecules in the air are moving around you in chaotic and unpredictable ways. To make sense of such systems, ...

An obscure theory of elementary particles proved to be key to China’s re-emergence as a scientific nation after the Cultural Revolution had stalled its development. Robert P Crease finds out more from ...

In this 2011 image, a NASA engineer looks on as the first six of the James Webb Space Telescope's 18 mirror segments are prepped to begin their final cryogenic testing. Engineers spent three decades ...

For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other.

Imagine trying to prove that 1+1=2, but when you do the calculations, it turns out that the result is off by 0.1%. That scenario is similar to the riddle that’s facing physicists worldwide as they try ...

For decades, physicists have accepted that the universe has two sizes: small and large. So-called classical equations govern big objects like baseballs and galaxies, while quantum mechanics describes ...

March is bound to get even madder. Scientists at Cornell University have put together a data model that suggests that the application of a physics theory to basketball may lead to teams scoring five ...

Terrence Howard told Joe Rogan his modern physics theories will revolutionize understanding of the universe.” Terrence Howard has sparked intrigue after a conversation with Joe Rogan in which the well ...