Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

This interaction could help explain both why quantum processes can occur within environments like the brain and why we lose ...

Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology and Yale University are initiating a first-of-its-kind experiment designed to detect gravitons, the hypothesized quantum building blocks of gravity.

To progress to the next level in understanding reality, we need to combine quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Alex May, whose research explores the intersection of quantum ...

The prestigious foundation backs high-risk research that challenges scientific convention — a fitting match for Pikovski’s ...

There’s an adage coined by [Ian Betteridge] that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered by the word “No”.

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, resisting every attempt to merge Einstein’s smooth space-time with the jittery world of quantum mechanics. A new wave of ...

The Standard Model of our universe doesn’t match the evidence, in part because of dark energy, a ghostly force pushing the ...