The story opens with a scene both familiar and deceptively simple: physicists once again interrogating the fabric of reality, ...

A team of international physicists has delivered a striking challenge to one of the most provocative ideas in modern science: ...

The geometry of space, the setting in which physical laws operate, may hold clues to some of the biggest unanswered questions in fundamental physics. The underlying structure of spacetime itself could ...

In 1919, physicist Theodor Kaluza hypothesized that extra dimensions might solve some outstanding problems in physics. And ...

Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new theoretical model of the nature of reality, presented by Maria Strømme, Professor of ...

Researchers from around the world have sought to answer important questions about the most basic laws of physics that govern our universe. Their experiment, the Majorana Demonstrator, has helped to ...

In the early universe, moments after the Big Bang and cosmic inflation, clusters of exotic, massive particles could have ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

Research published Tuesday by a Japanese astrophysicist says gamma rays may have been generated by the collision of dark ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...

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UChicago physics Prof. Bonnie Fleming, who is also the chief research officer at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is ...