The theorized unseen structure of spacetime could also explain of the outstanding questions about the accelerating expansion ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

The masses of fundamental particles such as the Z and W bosons could have arisen from the twisted geometry of hidden ...

Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something the universe simply hands to particles, a property encoded in ...

Dark matter could be even weirder than anyone thought, say cosmologists who are suggesting this mysterious substance that accounts for more than 80% of the universe's mass could interact with itself. ...

Physicists are exploring whether hidden dimensions and the shape of space could help explain why fundamental particles have ...

We tend not to dwell on the fact that we exist in three dimensions. Forwards-back, left-right, up-down; these are the axes on which we navigate the world. When we try to imagine something else, it ...

Over the short span of just 300 years, since the invention of modern physics, we have gained a deeper understanding of how our universe works on both small and large scales. Yet, physics is still very ...