What if the Big Bang didn't begin with a singularity? This point of infinite density, which so divides physicists, could be ...

Albert Einstein's enduring quote, "If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself," highlights ...

Physicists may have uncovered a surprising new clue that string theory—the idea that the universe is built from unimaginably tiny vibrating strings—could be more than just a mathematical fantasy.

Physicists searching for a better understanding of quantum gravity stumbled upon something unexpected: the defining ...

A team from Vienna and Frankfurt has found a formula describing a strange phenomenon: Space and time can form a kind of "crystal" that may turn into a black hole. The results are described in Physical ...

Cosmologists have long struggled to determine whether the universe's accelerating expansion is being driven by a simple ...

Kurt Vonnegut explains the shapes of every story ever told, and his theory is as entertaining as it is clarifying.

Tenets of quantum mechanics and special relativity, among other theoretical ideas, lead inexorably to string theory.

One of the most fundamental assumptions about our Universe may actually be incorrect, potentially reshaping humanity's entire ...

Eduard Shyfrin, businessman, mathematician, Kabbalah scholar, and most recently, musician, has released Red Blues, a single ...

The rules governing gravity and other laws of nature seem like eternal truths, but cosmologist João Magueijo has always ...