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

On July 4, 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland announced with great fanfare that they had ...

The poet Blake wrote that you can see a world in a grain of sand. But even better, you can see a universe in an atom!

Twin black hole collisions detected in 2024 have provided the sharpest-ever test of Einstein’s theory while revealing new details about how black holes form and spin.

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Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window ...

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

Gori's work helps bridge theory and experiment, deepening understanding of the Higgs boson, the nature of neutrino masses, and the possible particles that make up dark matter ...

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

In the quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe, physicists are revisiting a 150-year-old theory that could illuminate ...

Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang, who spent decades advancing physics in both the U.S. and China, died in Beijing on Saturday at ...