Scientists studying a mysterious effect called cosmic birefringence—a subtle twist in the polarization of the universe’s oldest light—have developed a new way to reduce uncertainty in how it’s ...

A new three-volume study explores how quantum physics, gravitation and cosmology may be understood within a unified ...

Gravity is by far the weakest of nature’s four fundamental forces, and physicists have spent decades asking a deceptively simple question: why? One answer, first sketched a century ago and refined ...

Researchers have identified a potential mechanism that explains how turbulent plasma can produce the vast, ordered magnetic ...

Scientists worldwide respond to the publication of the three-volume monograph “Quantum Model of the Universe” #Physics ...

Astronomers have unveiled one of the most ambitious maps yet of the early universe, revealing a vast "sea of light" between ...

A new study explains how some supernovae are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called ...

Astronomers have created the largest and most detailed 3D map yet of a glowing signal from the early universe, revealing ...

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No one knows for sure, but it is not unlikely that the universe is constructed in a completely different way than the usual theories and models of today predict. The most widely used model today ...

Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising ...