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

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

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.

Much to the delight of the mainstream media, there's a battle royal going on in physics. Over recent months, a fair bit of mud has been slung in the theoretical physics community over the issue of ...

Big Pink stands in a part of Multnomah County with lots of overlapping tax levies, including three that pay for Portland ...

In a new, detailed breakdown of current theory, a team of physicists led by Mir Faizal of the University of British Columbia ...

Explore the complex challenges of quantum gravity in this video, examining the evolution of gravity models and the necessity ...

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for ...

Such an exponential expansion may seem minor, but it is equivalent to a grape in the palm of your hand swelling to become ...

Japanese physicists have revived Kelvin’s old idea of cosmic knots, showing how these tangled fields might explain why matter ...

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