Physics

The newly-measured rate of a key nuclear fusion process from the Big Bang matches the picture of the universe 380,000 years later.

Cora Dvorkin discovered new possibilities for what dark matter could be. Now she’s devising unorthodox ways to identify it.

Once missing in action, middleweight black holes have finally been detected. Now researchers are trying to figure out how they grow from small ones.

In a landmark series of calculations, physicists have proved that black holes can shed information.

We’ve created a new way to explore the fundamental constituents of the universe.

Our new series of articles explores the search for fundamental structure at the edge of science.

Recent experiments show that particles should be able to go faster than light when they quantum mechanically “tunnel” through walls.

In 2020, researchers reported that they had created a room-temperature superconductor. That paper has now been retracted.

The physicist Jeff Gore tests theories about microbe communities experimentally and finds new rules governing ecological stability.