Physicists are exploring whether hidden dimensions and the shape of space could help explain why fundamental particles have ...

The theorized unseen structure of spacetime could also explain of the outstanding questions about the accelerating expansion ...

Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something the universe simply hands to particles, a property encoded in ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

A team of physicists has coaxed a single, photon-like particle into behaving as if it lives in 37 different quantum ...

Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

It's true. Muons - you know, those subatomic particles, also known as fat electrons - wobble faster than we suspected. By we, of course, I mean they - the particle physicists obsessed with things like ...

MADISON – When the world’s most powerful particle accelerator starts up later this year, exotic new particles may offer a glimpse of the existence and shapes of extra dimensions. Researchers from the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When it comes to understanding the fabric of the universe, most of what scientists think exists is consigned to a dark, murky domain.

When it comes to understanding the fabric of the universe, most of what scientists think exists is consigned to a dark, murky domain. Ordinary matter, the stuff we can see and touch, accounts for just ...

Dark matter could be even weirder than anyone thought, say cosmologists who are suggesting this mysterious substance that accounts for more than 80% of the universe's mass could interact with itself. ...