For years, the idea that we might be living inside a vast computer program has drifted from philosophy seminars into ...

This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. What does it take to launch into space? Other ...

From mysterious dark matter to the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei, the past 12 months have reiterated just how strange particle physics can be. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

A subtle timing flash may expose the Unruh effect. The approach ties ordinary lab tools to deep quantum physics. Researchers ...

Physics has a bit of a messy problem: There's matter missing in our universe. Something is there that we can't see, but scientists can detect. "When we look at how stars move in galaxies, they move as ...

Thinking about the edge of the universe is one of those ideas that fascinates pretty much everyone. We can map […] ...

A 3.5-gallon volume of deep space, specifically within the Milky Way's Orion-Cygnus Arm, would contain approximately 4 million neutrinos and about 13,000 gas atoms, predominantly hydrogen and helium.

In spring 2002, Chelsey Bryant Krug flew to Colorado in search of a job. She had just enrolled as a graduate student in aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. She found ...