The universe exists because matter and antimatter are not good friends. Is there a scientific reason why the universe exists?

The origin of our Universe remains one of the greatest enigmas of science, a question that seems to defy the limits of our ...

Recent progress on both analog and digital simulations of quantum fields foreshadows a future in which quantum computers ...

About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed like a contradiction in Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. Published in 1915, and already widely accepted ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Mathematical evidence indicates that our universe is flat, but it could be infinitely big, as well. You can figure out if an object is flat with a ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if our ...

That cosmologists cannot agree on one of the most elementary facts about the universe is striking enough. But that uncertainty produces others, too: it makes it impossible to calculate an exact age ...

I was reminded recently that we seem to be trapped in a Catch-22 Universe. What makes it a Catch-22 is that no one is qualified to penetrate the mystery of the cosmos without skill in advanced ...