Dark matter may have started as light-like particles that abruptly became heavy—a cosmic twist rooted in spin and ...

Symmetry has been considered an unshakable property in physics, but strange quark behavior caused it to fail in a scientific ...

"The appearance of such structures sheds new light on the sorts of mathematical objects that nature is built from." ...

In the vast ocean of existence, a silent dance pulses through every particle, every atom, every breath. This dance is ancient ...

This cosmic dance repeated, and nearly 2 billion years later, the subcluster passed through a third time, roughly 750 million years ago. —Astronomers discover doomed planet shedding a Mount ...

Astronomers thought the Perseus cluster was a massive-but-stable grouping of galaxies, until they found hints of a collision with another cluster — but no one had identified a cosmic interloper ...

This tiny deviation could hint at unknown physics or surprising effects of dark energy influencing cosmic growth. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Over billions of years, the universe has transformed from a ...

A Synchrotron is one of several types of particle accelerators, speeding up electrons, protons, and various other subatomic particles along a cyclical path. The powerful machine serves as a circular ...

is an award-winning British science writer based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the co-author with John Heilbron of Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement (2024) ...