The first direct measurement has been made of a thorium-229 nuclear transition that could potentially...

Two independent teams have shown that gravitational waves emanating from the distorted remnants of black...

A new thought experiment suggests that the mere presence of a black hole can destroy...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features the laser specialist Tara Fortier, who works with some of the world’s...

IntroductionThe cracks in cosmology were supposed to take a while to appear. But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) opened its lens last...

The equivalent to a wormhole in spacetime has been created on a quantum processor. Researchers...

Quantum superposition is not just a property of subatomic particles but also of the most...

IntroductionCosmologists have spent decades striving to understand why our universe is so stunningly vanilla. Not only is it smooth and flat as far as...

Light from a supernova that was emitted just six hours after the initial stellar explosion...

The Weak Equivalence Principle is a critical component of the theory of general relativity. The principle suggests that objects in a gravitational field fall...