For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, resisting every attempt to be folded neatly into the quantum rules that govern the rest of nature. Now a convergence of bold ...

It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is ...

Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand ...

Physicists have chased a unified description of nature for more than a century, yet quantum theory and gravity have ...

TU Wien researchers have uncovered a quantum twist to the paths particles take through spacetime — one that could finally ...

Some stars explode into a nova quickly; others can take more than a month. Scientists are only beginning to understand why.

Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity does a great job at explaining gravity but it is thought to be incomplete ...

From mind-bending houses that seem to float in mid-air to precarious properties that cantilever over their surroundings, ...

A new Warhammer 40,000 novel confirms that what's actually going on inside a black hole is still a mystery in the grim ...

Two papers challenged the existence of theorized particles called sterile neutrinos that might account for mysteries like the ...

Beginning in the mid-20th century, Western intellectuals began dismantling the concept of objective truth. Postmodern ...

A subtle timing flash may expose the Unruh effect. The approach ties ordinary lab tools to deep quantum physics. Researchers ...