Something genuinely strange has just happened in fundamental physics: an underground neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean ...

It feels so obvious that time moves forward that questioning it can seem almost pointless.

Over the short span of just 300 years, since the invention of modern physics, we have gained a deeper understanding of how our universe works on both small and large scales. Yet, physics is still very ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping to pave a path for the eventual discovery of dark matter. With new approaches to measurement in the quantum realm, ...

A recent paper has proposed a new idea for what is causing the observed accelerated expansion of the universe, and dark matter, suggesting both of them may a "cosmic illusion" caused by the changing ...

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Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current ...

The new study used the known distance to a galaxy called M106/NGC 4258 — a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici — as a reference point. The universe is expanding faster than astronomers ...

Fundamental questions that particle physicists have pondered for decades might be answered when a $9.2 million neutron physics beam line is built at the Department of Energy’s Spallation Neutron ...

Physicists have performed a simulation they say sheds new light on an elusive phenomenon that could determine the ultimate fate of the universe. Pioneering research in quantum field theory around 50 ...

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The Standard Model of cosmology incorporates 29 fundamental constants, whose values influence the universe's properties, including the possibility of life. A vast majority of possible combinations of ...