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

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has begun its first-ever collisions of oxygen ions, in the latest attempt to understand the ...

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

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

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

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

A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of ...

In a sense, queer theory is the study of what we as a society deem as “normal” and why these assumptions exist in the first place. It seeks to understand who benefits from and who is ...

A research team led by Dr. Shen Jinhua from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has investigated rapid spatiotemporal vertical electric currents (VECs) ...

Three intertwined time directions may underpin everything, turning space into mere “paint on the canvas” and pushing physics ...

This study introduces a phonon-based theoretical framework for liquids, marking a major step toward a universal equation of state with broad implications across physics, chemistry and engineering ...

In a dark corner of a guest house in Helgoland, a diary by Werner Heisenberg has been discovered, describing how he developed ...