The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has shifted from late-night dorm debate to a live question in ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other.

Louis E. Brus, a chemist and Nobel laureate who discovered quantum dots, tiny crystals that emit various colors of light ...

The Big Bang's early moments were crucial for nucleosynthesis, leading to the formation of light elements and influencing the ...

Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

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A study involving quantum collapse model has shown that time is not uniform but has tiny fluctuations that put limits on its ...

Quantum mechanics is rich with paradoxes and contradictions. It describes a microscopic world in which particles exist in a ...

A new theory suggests gravity could possibly be the result of entropy—which would mean everything in the universe would fall ...

These breakthroughs remind us that science is, as Astrid Söderbergh Widding, chair of the Nobel Foundation, stated in her ...