Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

Physicists are quietly testing an audacious idea: that the mass of everything around us might not come from an invisible ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something the universe simply hands to particles, a property encoded in ...

Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

Physicists are exploring whether hidden dimensions and the shape of space could help explain why fundamental particles have ...

Shaped quantum light is turning ordinary photons into powerful tools for the future of technology.

Researchers attempting to solve the problem of dark matter have proposed a particle that can travel to an unseen fifth dimension. The work is entirely hypothetical, as it attempts to explain a type of ...