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

Physicists are quietly testing wild new theories that treat a hidden fifth dimension as more than science fiction, suggesting ...

Dark matter seems invisible, but it makes up most matter, and we have evidence that it gives the cosmos its shape. Now ...

Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at ...

This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if ...

Tiny self-propelled nanorobots use body chemistry to navigate directly to tumors and deliver cancer drugs more effectively.

The universe thrums with quantum fields; and the particles of matter and force emerge as vibrational manifestations of the deep symmetries of these fields. The layers and reflecti ...

Scientists analyzing data from heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—the world's most powerful particle ...

Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that ...

By bringing the long-standing and opposing views of quantum mechanics together to form a single cohesive theory, a research ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

An obscure theory of elementary particles proved to be key to China’s re-emergence as a scientific nation after the Cultural ...