Whenever someone talks about black holes, they almost always talk about the event horizon and the singularity. After all, ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics.

Scientists at TU Wien found that electrons need specific “doorway states” to escape solids, not just energy. The insight ...

There are many purposes that spots and stripes serve in nature, but how they form has been more of a mystery to scientists.

Astronomers are rethinking one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries: dark energy. New findings show that evolving dark energy models, tied to ultra-light axion particles, may better fit the universe’s ...

The experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detect rare events on a daily basis, but some are exceptionally rare, such as this latest result from the CMS collaboration. For the first time, the ...