A new study suggests that certain 'quantum collapse models'—which posit that wavefunction collapse happens spontaneously—could be tied to gravity, introducing a tiny intrinsic uncertainty in time ...

It was 1972 and Apollo astronauts Harrison “Jack” Schmitt and Eugene Cernan had just stepped onto the moon’s surface to begin ...

Elon Musk plans Terafab to meet AI's massive energy needs. This venture involves building chips and generating power in space ...

Measuring the strength of gravity is extraordinarily difficult, and different experiments have always disagreed – but a new ...

To some, physics may be a daunting subject, but for Colgate University senior Christopher Gross, physics is an invitation to ...

Physicists have long suspected that there is a layer of physical reality beneath quantum theory and a new mathematical model ...

Quantum collapse models hint at tiny time fluctuations. Credit: FQxI/Gabriel Fitzpatrick (2026) An FQxI cofunded study ...

Only about 5% of the universe is composed of normal matter that we can directly observe, while the remaining 95% is widely ...

Physicists have spent the last 20 years pondering an apparent discrepancy between experimental results and theoretical ...

The cosmological constant is the mathematical description of the energy that drives the ever-accelerating expansion of the ...

Scientists have observed particles forming from the vacuum, revealing how matter may emerge from seemingly empty space.

Per Moskvitch, Aaronson later watched the episode with his own two children, who kept asking follow-up questions. “This is ...