This talk tells the story of symmetry in theoretical physics, and its interplay with developments in our understanding of gravity over the years. In this talk, McNamara explores the power of symmetry ...

A highly regarded theoretical physicist has "agreed to pause his working relationship" with the Perimeter Institute in ...

Study Identifies Systematic Instabilities in Quasar Dipole Measurements. New Analysis Challenges "Lopsided Universe" ...

Physicist Sean Carroll explains how physics, astronomy, philosophy, and classics all help us understand the expanding ...

"We are not just replacing the black hole with a dark object; we are proposing that the supermassive central object and the ...

At CERN’s Large Hadron Collider on the edge of Geneva, scientists have reported a surprising twist in the behavior of matter.

So, what this new paper is proposing is that the 2023 neutrino detection was a signature of the explosion of a black hole ...

In November, Quanta magazine published a feature on the detection of “magic” top quarks at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This magic, they explained, is part of an interesting shift happening at ...

So cosmologists feel confident in modelling the universe using the “maximally symmetric” description of space-time in Einstein’s theory of general relativity. This symmetric vision for the universe, ...

Marshall University’s College of Science marked Black History Month by presenting the achievements of seven Black scientists with West Virginia roots, highlighting their lasting impact on science, ...

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

Two ways of measuring how fast the universe is expanding disagree, a puzzle known as the Hubble tension. Tiny magnetic fields ...