The natural complexity of the universe should phase out the possibility of some advanced civilization controlling reality itself, researchers argue.

The poet Blake wrote that you can see a world in a grain of sand. But even better, you can see a universe in an atom!

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

Twin black hole collisions detected in 2024 have provided the sharpest-ever test of Einstein’s theory while revealing new details about how black holes form and spin.

Albert Einstein is famous for his contributions to physics, even predicting this strange and fascinating gravitational effect ...

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the ...

Albert Einstein, everyone’s favorite wild-haired genius with a mischievous grin, is more than just a pop culture icon whose legend lives on today. He’s arguably the most influential scientist of the ...

Very early dark energy (vEDE) may have accelerated the universe’s expansion just 380,000 years after the Big Bang, new ...

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

For the first time, scientists have detected two black hole mergers with spins so unusual they may reveal a new generation of ...

Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window ...

Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...