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

Modern cosmology often presents itself as the most triumphant extension of physics: a discipline that has traced the history of the universe from fractions of a second after the Big Bang to the ...

The English physicist was diagnosed with ALS at age 21 and managed to live 55 years longer than science predicted.

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, ...

The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time ...

For many critics of religion, particularly within atheist circles, the Big Bang theory is frequently presented as a decisive scientific evidence against belief in God and the biblical doctrine of ...

A new theoretical framework shows how subtle fluctuations in spacetime could be detected using existing interferometers.

Scientists discovered “magic” top quarks at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, demonstrating how the facility has evolved to support quantum computing research.

It’s unclear whether science as a discipline—and scientists as people—will ever be able to answer some questions definitively ...

"We have long treated the Planck scale like a blurry limit," said Kulkarni. "But if you treat space as an information storage medium, geometry dictates a specific packing efficiency. The universe has ...

Quantum Computing stock could surprise a lot of investors, and scare a lot of shorts, in 2026. 2025 was a great year to invest in most quantum computing stocks-- most, not all. Quantum Computing aims ...

Sci-fi loves a multiverse. Everyone from Rick and Morty to Spider-Man has stepped through a portal and met their alter egos. My personal favorite use of this trope comes from the sitcom Community, ...