Out of the limelight, theoretical physicists continue to seek a mathematical model that can explain the universe's particles ...

String theory aims to explain all fundamental forces and particles in the universe—essentially, how the world operates on the ...

The reference frames from which observers view quantum events can themselves have multiple possible locations at once — an ...

A new study explores this tantalizing idea. The idea of aliens hiding in a parallel universe — though seemingly absurd — is presented as a way to bridge the gap between theoretical physics and the ...

Many theories attempt to explain consciousness, but one that’s gaining traction is the idea of electromagnetic (EM) ...

A new theory that explains how light and matter interact at the quantum level has enabled researchers to define for the first ...

Stanford professor Helen Quinn presented the Howard L. Schultz Sr. Price Lecture on the early days of the Standard Model and ...

The big cosmic joke of dark matter is that, although we can’t see it, it apparently makes up the vast majority of all the ...

A $340,000 National Science Foundation grant will support research led by Cal Poly physics Professor Thomas Gutierrez on neutrinos through the international CUPID (CUORE Upgrade with Particle ...

Dark matter has always been one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics. The "Dark Big Bang" theory may have the answer.

The mathematics Albert Einstein devised to describe the gravitational workings of the physical Universe in the early 20th ...

Universal boundary that distinguishes effective approximate error correction codes from ineffective ones turns out to be ...