The collective gravity of countless neutrinos gently irons out the wrinkles in the cosmic web, preventing matter from ...

A new physics paper proposes modifications to Einstein’s theory of relativity that could solve one of the biggest issues ...

A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the Big Bang has always ...

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

Waterloo scientists have developed a new way to understand how the universe began, and it could change what we know about the Big Bang and the earliest moments of cosmic history. Their work suggests ...

On Thursday, February 6, 2025, Professor Jamie Nagle captivated an audience of students, staff, faculty, and community members during the 125 th Distinguished Research Lecture hosted by CU Boulder’s ...

How can a universe built from stars, black holes, and dead stellar cores turn out to be less durable than physicists once ...

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The far future of the cosmos may be less endless than it once appeared. New calculations place the decay of the universe’s ...

Scientists studying a mysterious effect called cosmic birefringence—a subtle twist in the polarization of the universe’s oldest light—have developed a new way to reduce uncertainty in how it’s ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover examines the latest developments in the “forever war” over whether string theory can describe the ...

According to the team, the new approach can explain how the universe's initial inflation can naturally arise. But it comes ...