What if the universe remembers? A bold new framework proposes that spacetime acts as a quantum memory. For over a hundred ...

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an ...

In the 100th-anniversary year of quantum mechanics, which describes the universe at its smallest, most fundamental scales, ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work showing how bizarre ...

On Tuesday 7 October the winner(s) of the 2025 Nobel Prize for Physics will be announced. The process of choosing the winners ...

For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the ...

He was a co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for physics for finding the background radiation that finally pinned down the Big Bang theory.

The Nobel committee said that the laureates' work provides opportunities to develop "the next generation of quantum ...

A strong contender is wavelet theory, a mathematical framework that powers image and video compression across the digital ...

But what have been the most significant physics prizes of the 21st century? I’m including 2000 as part of this century (ignoring pedants who say it didn’t start till 1 January 2001 ). During that time ...

Progress in the foundations of physics is moving slowly. And yet it moves. Today I look at the five biggest problems in ...

Alvarez was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his work on elementary particle physics. His work had an ...