For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...

When Andreas Albrecht was a grad student at the University of Pennsylvania, he was looking for an advisor in particle physics ...

A New Theory of Everything, now available for public review.WESTPORT, Conn., June 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A ...

Modern physics theories highlight the key role of horizons—boundaries beyond which information cannot reach an observer—in a variety of cosmological and gravitational phenomena. Two renowned examples ...

The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.

Faster-than-light particles have spent decades in physics as both temptation and warning. They offered a way to test the limits of Einstein’s relativity, but they also seemed to wreck the basic order ...

The gauge bosons of the standard model of particle physics are responsible for three of the four known forces in the universe, conveyed through the exchange of virtual bosons. In electromagnetism, the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: String theory attempts to unify general relativity and quantum theory. Popular in the 1990s, string theory fell out of favor as it failed to provide ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. String theory attempts to unify general relativity and quantum theory. Popular in the 1990s, string theory fell out of favor as it ...

Artwork illustrating how string theory emerges from a few simple mathematical assumptions about particle collisions. Credit: AI-generated art by Clifford Cheung. Physicists searching for a better ...