Quantum mechanics, the theory which rules the microworld of atoms and particles, certainly has the X factor. Unlike many other areas of physics, it is bizarre and counter-intuitive, which makes it ...

As I sat in the undergraduate labs on level 5 of the Blackett Laboratory at Imperial College London, my task was to make an accurate measurement of the gravitational constant. This experiment has been ...

I do not think it means what you think it means. Physics can often seem inconceivable. It’s a field of strange concepts and special terms. Language often fails to capture what’s really going on within ...

Time travel has shifted from pure fantasy to a serious, if highly constrained, topic in modern physics. The equations that ...

Quantum mechanics, the theory which rules the microworld of atoms and particles, certainly has the X factor. Unlike many other areas of physics, it is bizarre and counter-intuitive, which makes it ...

On Monday, scientists announced the first-ever observation of a cosmic event using both gravitational wave detectors and conventional telescopes. They witnessed a kilonova, a violent, brilliant ...

Physicists don’t think the truth should be “out there.” They want nature to come naturally, make sense, fit in or have a good reason not to. Unnaturalness is a problem. The poster child for unnatural ...

Particle physicists have gone to great lengths — including rowing onto the dark waters of a swimming pool-sized water tank and setting up a base in the Antarctic — to understand one of the universe’s ...