A joint effort between two of the world’s largest neutrino experiments has brought scientists closer to understanding how the universe survived its violent beginnings. The findings could reveal why ...

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

SQUIRE aims to detect exotic spin-dependent interactions using quantum sensors deployed in space, where speed and ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

Columbia professors contributed to new research that seeks to understand an anomaly that has puzzled particle physics for ...

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

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A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

From the Library of Alexandria to the lost works of Plato, the world is littered with ancient writings containing long-lost ...

We can't see dark matter directly, so studying it pushes the boundaries of our creativity as scientists. How exciting, says ...

Blending ‘old-fashioned’ logic systems with the neural networks that power large language models is one of the hottest trends ...