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

Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 appointed four new University Professors last Wednesday, Harvard’s highest faculty distinction.

Even though we can explore the universe with great precision, there is still a lot we don't know, according to Ulf Danielsson, professor of theoretical physics at Uppsala University. Besides doing ...

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

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 ...

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

A question that has vexed physicists for the past century may finally have a solution – but perhaps not the one everyone was ...

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

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

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

The search for a Theory of Everything or Grand Unification Theory is the most ambitious goal in modern physics, aiming to ...