The “horizon” he points to isn’t a doorway to the divine, other scientists say. Yet, modern physics has been trying to answer questions once left to religion.

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Physicists believe the universe may exist in a fragile “false vacuum” state that could collapse at any moment. If triggered, the transition would spread at the speed of light — about 300,000 ...

Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.

A scientific overview of a speculative cosmology idea and what current physics says about black holes, spacetime, and the ...

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

New data from major dark-energy observatories suggest the universe may not expand forever after all. A Cornell physicist calculates that the cosmos is heading toward a dramatic reversal: after ...

The photograph, titled “Underwater Hunting,” was a finalist for the 2025 Global Physics Photowalk. The competition, held ...

“For the last 20 years, people believed that the cosmological constant is positive, and the universe will expand forever,” says Tye, a professor emeritus at Cornell. A positive constant acts like a ...

A new theory suggests the universe’s greatest secrets are hiding in a “zeptouniverse” that’s ready to be explored—without ...

There’s a mysterious energy quietly influencing your brain. Could it explain where your consciousness originates?

For the last 25 years, most scientists have believed that about 70% of the universe is formed by something called ‘’dark ...