Nearly half a century ago, physicists proposed that the universe might be trapped in a metastable state known as a false vacuum. This state appears stable but could, over immense timescales, ...

Once thought impossible, quasicrystals revealed a hidden order that challenges our understanding of materials. Their ...

Galaxies, planets, black holes: to most people, everything about our Universe sounds and feels enormous. But while it's true ...

Physicists are challenging long-held beliefs about time, suggesting it may not be a fundamental aspect of reality but rather ...

Physicists at the University of Surrey have uncovered evidence suggesting that, at the quantum level, time does not have a ...

Atomic clocks are more accurate than those used to define the second, suggesting the definition might need to change ...

What makes something quantum? This question has kept a small but dedicated fraction of the world's population—most of them ...