Last year, an enormous map of the cosmos hinted that the engine driving cosmic expansion might be sputtering. Now physicists ...

String theory may be our best attempt at a theory of everything, except that it can't describe an expanding universe like ...

Under the nighttime California sky, NASA's EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon ...

AIP and APS are excited to award Samson Shatashvili with the 2025 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics. Shatashvili ...

Blasting off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, NASA’s EZIE mission is on a groundbreaking journey to unravel the mysteries of auroral ...

AI gives a thumbs up to Brett Bellmore innovative modifications to Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR).

Atomic and molecular physics it the study of the properties, dynamics and interactions of the basic (but not fundamental) building blocks of matter. A crucial component of this is understanding ...

Immense detectors surround the areas where inconceivably small particles slam into one another at super-high energies, collisions that may confirm Arkani-Hamed's predictions about undiscovered ...

Ask almost any physicist what the most frustrating problem is in modern-day physics, and they will likely say the discrepancy between general relativity and quantum mechanics. That discrepancy has ...

Up in arms An estimated 2000 protestors attended a "Stand up for science" rally in New York on 7 March 2025. (Courtesy: Robert P Crease) The Stand Up for Science demonstration at Washington Square ...

Scientists say they've uncovered the "largest known galactic structure" — a cosmic monster that spans a mind-boggling 1.4 ...

Physicists have proposed a radical approach that questions decades of belief about how gravity, spacetime, and quantum mechanics fit together.