The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than ...

Physicists have long struggled to unite quantum mechanics—the theory governing tiny particles—with Einstein’s theory of ...

Nobel laureate Dr. James Peebles will discuss the still-unanswered questions regarding the expansion of the universe, dark matter and more. We have good evidence that the universe we see around us is ...

More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...

L. Maisenbacher et al, Sub-part-per-trillion test of the Standard Model with atomic hydrogen, Nature, February 11, 2026, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10124-3, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10124-3 ...

How can bacteria that forage on organic particles survive in vast ocean regions where such particles are extremely sparse? A ...

Dark matter, time travel and meta theatre: Emma Howlett on Aether - Emma Howlett, one of theatre’s most exciting new voices, talks us through the dizzying ride that is Aether at the Jermyn Street Thea ...

Pushed down to a certain scale, the laws of physics seem to fall apart. Astrid Eichhorn, a leader in an area of study called asymptotic safety, thinks we just need to push a little further.

We all know that stars radiate light and much more. But radiation belts can also surround many other celestial bodies, such ...

A new three-volume study explores how quantum physics, gravitation and cosmology may be understood within a unified ...

From growing up in a Kolkata shaped by legends like Satyendra Nath Bose to winning the $3 million Breakthrough Prize, ...