Physics
LIGO Architects Win Nobel Prize in Physics
The American physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish were honored for dreaming up and realizing the experiment that confirmed the existence of gravitational waves.
The Universe Began With a Big Melt, Not a Big Bang
The cosmological constant and the creation of the universe.
Will We Ever Know What Dark Matter Is?
The search for the elusive material is reaching the end of its tether.
Re-Inventing Gravity
Many scientists believe Einstein’s theory of general relativity will need to be modified. What new evidence will point the way?
The Strange Similarity of Neuron and Galaxy Networks
Your life’s memories could, in principle, be stored in the universe’s structure.
