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

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

His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...

Mark Carney promised to increase military spending to two per cent of GDP, and he does so in his first budget.

Attempts to describe quantum physics are rarely enjoyable, but Paul Davies' zeal in Quantum 2.0 sometimes steers too close to hype, finds Karmela Padavic-Callaghan ...

For decades, scientists have asked one of the most profound questions in existence — are we alone in the universe, or is our ...

The nature of gravity — and whether it can be reconciled with quantum mechanics — is one of the biggest mysteries in physics. Most researchers think that at a fundamental level, all phenomena follow ...

One of the latest relationship tests to go viral is the “bird theory,” racking up millions of views on social media. It’s ...

Kellogg Stelle was a professor of physics at Imperial College London for decades until his death last month. In 1977, he developed a particle theory of gravity that’s renormalizable, but the theory’s ...

In a modern version of the famed double-slit experiment, physicists demonstrated that light cannot behave as both wave and particle simultaneously, overturning a key premise Einstein held. The ...

Infleqtion expects to go public in late 2025 or early 2026. Its products are in use by Nvidia, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), NASA, and the U.K. government. Thanks to its revenue stream from ...

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 ...