Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

The briefing book of the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics was published in October. Paris Sphicas ...

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, ...

Phonons are sound particles or quantized vibrations of atoms in solid materials. The Debye model, a theory introduced by ...

A new theory-based approach provides access to the minute transverse motion of quarks within protons. Nuclear physicists have developed a new theoretical framework that allows them to calculate a ...

Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter — the invisible stuff thought to make up more than a quarter of the cosmos — as they study a diffuse glow of gamma rays near ...

Researchers propose that hydrogen gas from the early Universe emitted detectable radio waves influenced by dark matter. Studying these signals, especially from the Moon’s radio-quiet environment, ...

Climate modelers are having a moment. Last month, Time Magazine listed two of them—Friederike Otto and Geert Jan van Oldenborg of the World Weather Attribution Project—among the 100 Most Influential ...