Nearly 50 years ago, physicists floated a bold idea: our universe might be stuck in a false vacuum. This state feels stable, ...

The idea of a particle that races faster than light has long fascinated physicists. Known as the tachyon, it was originally ...

Experts believe the universe may have a built-in 'self-destruct button' called false vacuum decay which could destroy the ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

Fermi balls might be more important than scientists previous considered. Now, this phenomenon from the early stages of the ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed inside a colossal black hole residing in a larger, parent universe. The ...

The universe has always seemed like a grand, unstoppable machine. From theories such as the Big Crunch to the long, cold ...

A hypothesis not included in the current paper is that gravity interacts directly with the Higgs field — a subatomic quantum field responsible for giving particles mass, as confirmed by ...

What if, just before we reach the bottom, we find out that reductionism fails? Big things are made of smaller things, and those smaller things are made of smaller things still. That’s ...

Under the right conditions, this collapse doesn’t end in a singularity — instead, it bounces and begins expanding again,” said University of Portsmouth professor Enrique Gaztañaga in a statement that ...

New Frontiers in Science in the Era of AI arrives with a clear mission: to contextualise AI within the long arc of scientific ...

On June 11, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine announced the result of a three-year study to set a ...