Hey, Did You Know Stephen Hawking Thought There Is No God?
In what would be somewhat of a revelation had the late theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking not been…
Could the Weirdness of Quantum Physics Produce a New Kind of Star?
It would be silly to think that scientists and astronomers have spotted all of the different kinds of weird things that…
New Research Could Help Bring Secure Quantum Communication to Everyone
In September, the Chinese Academy of Sciences president Chunli Bai, and President Anton Zeilinger of the Austria…
Dark Matter Is Not Dead
It can be easy to take hyped-up science papers as fact, especially when they involve the most esoteric imaginable…
Stephen Hawking's Ph.D Thesis Is Now Crashing Cambridge's Website [Updated]
You might not want anyone to read the work you put together as a university student—I sure don’t. But we’re not Stephen…
Scientists Resolve Mysterious Violation to Einstein's Relativity
Even if you don’t know much physics, you probably know one of its core tenets: an object at rest stays at rest, and an…
Pushing Particles Forwards Might Make Them Go Backwards Because Quantum Physics Is Bonkers
You are very lucky that you ended up about the size that you are today, somewhere between one and ten feet tall and…
New Evidence Suggests a Fifth Fundamental Force of Nature
We all know about the four fundamental forces of nature: gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak and strong forces…
Gravitational Wave Scientists Win $3 Million For Being Awesome
Earlier this year, scientists confirmed the presence of gravitational waves, a cosmological feature first predicted by…
A New Laser Could Make Materials Hotter Than the Sun Almost Instantly
Ever feel like an insanely high powered laser could solve your problems? Fusion researchers sure do! And now, they may…
Why We Should Keep Trying to Time Travel
H.G. Wells coined the term "time machine" all the way back in 1895, just a decade before Einstein published his…
Are Black Holes All Shaped Like Doughnuts?
A new study puts the unified model of black holes, a.k.a the doughnut model, on trial and concludes that black holes…
Scientists May Have Figured Out How to Turn Light into Matter
Back in 1934, a team of physicists came up with an idea for how one might create matter from light. Put simply, just…
A Pulse From Space Hints At Dark Matter Massed At Our Galaxy's Center
Does our galaxy center around a mass of dark matter? A new analysis that examines the steady stream of gamma rays that…
What Happens When Two Black Holes Collide?
We know a few things about what happens when a black hole encounters another object in space. But what would happen if…
Ask A Theoretical Physicist About What Goes On In Black Holes!
Chris Adami, a theoretical physicist and computational biologist, is here today to take our questions about what goes…
New evidence that plants get their energy using quantum entanglement
Biophysicists theorize that plants tap into the eerie world of quantum entanglement during photosynthesis. But the…
This physical breakthrough could change our understanding of spacetime
Over at Quanta Magazine, Natalie Wolchover has authored a stunning feature on the "amplituhedron" – a jewel-shaped,…
New theory says the Universe isn't expanding — it's just getting fat
Conventional thinking says the Universe has been expanding ever since the Big Bang. But theoretical astrophysicist…
Lawrence Krauss answers questions on life, the Universe and everything
Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss – author of The Physics of Star Trek and A Universe from Nothing, and producer of …