What if the universe remembers? A bold new framework proposes that spacetime acts as a quantum memory. For over a hundred ...

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work showing how bizarre ...

In the 100th-anniversary year of quantum mechanics, which describes the universe at its smallest, most fundamental scales, ...

He was a co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for physics for finding the background radiation that finally pinned down the Big Bang theory.

A strong contender is wavelet theory, a mathematical framework that powers image and video compression across the digital ...

For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the ...

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...

Could our universe be expanding then shrinking back into a tiny point, reliving a kind of big bang over and over again? Probably not, according to a mathematical analysis that argues that the laws of ...

Alvarez was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his work on elementary particle physics. His work had an ...

Progress in the foundations of physics is moving slowly. And yet it moves. Today I look at the five biggest problems in ...

A problem that has long been considered impossible to solve and that now, thanks to a breakthrough, can be calculated quickly ...