Through the weak nuclear force, one quark flavor can transmute into another. However, current data and theory indicate that ...

A new map of cosmic expansion suggests that dark energy evolves over time, hinting that the universe doesn’t work the way we ...

The standard model of particle physics is our best theory of the elementary particles and forces that make up our world: particles and antiparticles, such as electrons and positrons, are described ...

Data from 41 million galaxies does not shake up the standard cosmological model after all. To that conclusion, to their own ...

The Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) has been observing large parts of the southern sky over a period of eight years in order to ...

Our standard unit of length is the metre, m. This is useful for things of a human scale but less good for measuring very small or very large objects. That is why we use other units that are ...

A groundbreaking new dataset containing information on 18.7 million celestial objects —the largest ever assembled—is now ...