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The way time ticks forward in our universe has long stumped physicists. Now, a new set of tools from entangled atoms to black ...

Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, but not for relativity—the theory that made him famous. This article ...

"These results from the Dark Energy Survey shine new light on our understanding of the universe and its expansion." ...

Dark energy is still one of the greatest cosmic mysteries. For all the time, money and telescopes that humanity has used to ...

Physicists have proposed a bizarre theoretical bubble in which the normal rules of space and time no longer apply. Inside it, matter could effectively move faster than light without technically ...

Together with an international team, researchers from the Molecular Physics Department at the Fritz Haber Institute have ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

"This is one of the most exciting results from Solar Orbiter so far." ...

Astronomers may have finally cracked one of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how black holes grew so enormous so fast after ...

A study by physicists affiliated with the Foundational Questions Institute (FQxI) found that time ...

Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that ...