Instead of the big bang, some physicists have suggested that our universe may have come from a big bounce following another ...

An invisible force has long eluded detection within the halls of the world’s most famous particle accelerator—until now.

Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and ...

These scientists may be lesser known than Einstein and Newton, but they made giant contributions to science, including astronomy, physics, chemistry and medicine. Isaac Newton once wrote, "If I have ...

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An international team of physicists uncovered the behemoth by detecting ripples in space-time from the violent collision.

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning.

A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum world. However, the new theory remains far from being proven observationally.

Scientists are redefining time itself, starting with the second Switching to optical clocks would have cascading ripple effects from meteorology to basic physics.

Can you prove whether a large quantum system truly behaves according to the weird and wonderful rules of quantum mechanics—or ...

Scientists May Have Found a Way to Simplify Gravity. It Could Change Physics as We Know It. It may be more straightforward than we thought—mathematically speaking, anyway.

Here are ten famous scientists whose discoveries have shaped our understanding.