On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming that the United States was no ...

Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.

Nearly 50 years ago, physicists floated a bold idea: our universe might be stuck in a false vacuum. This state feels stable, ...

Experts believe the universe may have a built-in 'self-destruct button' called false vacuum decay which could destroy the ...

The universe has always seemed like a grand, unstoppable machine. From theories such as the Big Crunch to the long, cold ...

Black holes are expected to be the last giant objects left in the universe, but even they will slowly shrink and disappear ...

The idea of a particle that races faster than light has long fascinated physicists. Known as the tachyon, it was originally ...

This week, more than 600 scientists met in Venice, Italy, to debate the future direction of European particle physics in the global context. The Open Symposium is an important step in the ongoing ...

Under the right conditions, this collapse doesn’t end in a singularity — instead, it bounces and begins expanding again,” said University of Portsmouth professor Enrique Gaztañaga in a statement that ...

Entanglement ~ A short science fiction story of a not-so improbable future Author’s Note: In a “New York Times” survey, when asked if they could travel back in time, 42% of the respondents said that ...

Raymond Laflamme, a Canadian pioneer in the field of quantum information processing who once worked with Stephen Hawking, has ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...