theoretical physics

“This is the way the world ends,” said T. S. Elliot in his famous poem, “Not with a bang but a whimper.” These days,…

For most of us, traveling faster than the cosmic speed limit—the speed of light—is a science-fiction fantasy that…

Physicists don’t know where most of the universe’s apparent mass has gone, and attempts to find it have so far…

The fact that no one has died from being struck by dark matter is enough proof to rule out certain ideas about the…

Pioneering physicist Murray Gell-Mann has passed away at the age of 89. Among his many scientific contributions, the…

In what would be somewhat of a revelation had the late theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking not…

It would be silly to think that scientists and astronomers have spotted all of the different kinds of weird things…

In September, the Chinese Academy of Sciences president Chunli Bai, and President Anton Zeilinger of the Austria…

It can be easy to take hyped-up science papers as fact, especially when they involve the most esoteric imaginable…

You might not want anyone to read the work you put together as a university student—I sure don’t. But we’re not…

Even if you don’t know much physics, you probably know one of its core tenets: an object at rest stays at rest, and…

You are very lucky that you ended up about the size that you are today, somewhere between one and ten feet tall and…

We all know about the four fundamental forces of nature: gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak and strong forces…

Earlier this year, scientists confirmed the presence of gravitational waves, a cosmological feature first predicted…

Ever feel like an insanely high powered laser could solve your problems? Fusion researchers sure do! And now, they…

H.G. Wells coined the term "time machine" all the way back in 1895, just a decade before Einstein published his…

A new study puts the unified model of black holes, a.k.a the doughnut model, on trial and concludes that black…

Back in 1934, a team of physicists came up with an idea for how one might create matter from light. Put simply, just…

Does our galaxy center around a mass of dark matter? A new analysis that examines the steady stream of gamma rays…

We know a few things about what happens when a black hole encounters another object in space. But what would happen…