Exotic hypothetical particles known as axions could potentially be produced inside a nuclear reactor, something The Big Bang ...

When it comes to understanding the universe, what we know is only a sliver of the whole picture.

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light, interacting very weakly with ordinary ...

A new computational breakthrough is giving scientists a clearer view into how dark matter structures evolve. Dark matter has ...

The fifth state of matter—the ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)—has been an invaluable tool in unlocking the secrets ...

Physicists are quietly rolling out a new generation of simulation codes that promise to do more than crunch numbers. By ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe — and where the effect of dark ...

Condensed matter physics explores the emergent phenomena that arise from the collective interactions among an immense number of electrons, ions and other quasiparticles within solids and liquids. By ...

Why does quantum physics matter? Quantum mechanics is all around us. We interact with it every time we use a laptop or smartphone. We rely on it to scan UPC labels on our groceries and to find our ...

A couple of weeks ago, fellow Forbes blogger Ethan Siegel took to his keyboard with the goal of making me sigh heavily, writing a post about interpretations of quantum physics calling the idea that ...