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Most physicists operate on the assumption that there is a world completely independent of us, an objective reality in which…

We live in the age of black hole photography. In 2019, the first photograph of a black hole was published.…

1996, Italian physicist Peter HiggsLeonardo Cendamo/Getty Images Groundbreaking theoretical physicist Peter Higgs has died at the age of 94. Higgs’…

The fans roar to life, pumping air upwards at 260 kilometers per hour. Wearing a baggy blue jumpsuit, red helmet,…

And unlike pop-culture depictions of theoretical physicists scribbling in solitude on blackboards, covered in chalk dust, Dr. Massey likes to…

Monica Schreier Smith wants to create spacetime from scratch in her labHarrison Truong/Stanford University Space and time may not be…

Virginia Tech Faculty of Science’s J. Mark Sowers Special Lecture Series The first lecture of the year with Cornell University…

Science and the technology it enables have always had a close relationship with war. But World War II took the…

Jonathan Oppenheim likes the occasional flirt, but his interests are a little less intense than horse racing or one-armed thieves.…

COSMOLOGICAL inflation is the idea that the universe suddenly expanded to an extreme in the first moment. This is widely…