In November, scientists arrived at the South Pole in planes outfitted with skis to pull off a construction project seven years in the making.

Philosopher Nick Bostrom argued that one possibility is unavoidable: we are almost certainly living in a simulation . Quantum experiments like the delayed choice experiment suggest observation alters ...

Looming behind Regenstein Library is a bronze, mushroom cloud–shaped sculpture—Henry Moore’s Nuclear Energy. Installed in 1967, it now seems like an inconspicuous part of the campus landscape. In ...

Dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries in science. Astronomers believe it makes up most of the matter in the universe, ...

This puzzle is known as the problem of time, and it remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of physics. Despite enormous progress in cosmology and particle physics, we still ...

A team of EPFL researchers has developed an AI algorithm that can model complex dynamical processes while taking into account ...

Why Information, Not Matter, May Be the True Foundation of Reality - Rethinking Reality Through Physics, Information, ...

Physicists have uncovered a path to one-dimensional anyons, exotic particles that defy the boson-fermion divide and could ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are paving the way for the future detection of dark ...

A physician introduces a provocative theory linking informational overload and evolutionary mismatch to modern disease ...

In our three-dimensional space, elementary particles neatly filter into either bosons or fermions. But in lower dimensions, ...

Using gold flakes, salt water, and light, scientists have made the universe’s invisible binding forces visible in color. The discovery opens new possibilities for studying how matter organizes itself ...