In the quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe, physicists are revisiting a 150-year-old theory that could illuminate ...

Now, more than 150 years later, a team of Japanese physicists are resurrecting the concept to solve one of cosmology’s ...

If these knots had a slight bias toward matter over antimatter, their unraveling could help explain the matter-antimatter ...

Howdy, pards! This autumnal week brought a new challenge to last decade's claim of a strong Yellowstone trophic cascade after ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

Physicists have been chasing one of the universe’s strangest mysteries—neutrinos, nearly invisible particles that zip through ...

Matter and antimatter should have completely wiped each other out eons ago, leaving the Universe a very empty place. Obviously that didn't happen. Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may ...

Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current ...