Now, more than 150 years later, a team of Japanese physicists are resurrecting the concept to solve one of cosmology’s ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

If these knots had a slight bias toward matter over antimatter, their unraveling could help explain the matter-antimatter ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have charted billions of years of galactic evolution, and found that ...

Most explanations rely on "dark energy" to explain the Universe's accelerating expansion rate, but a new study takes a different path.

Dark energy, the mysterious phenomenon that powers the expansion of the universe, may undergo periodic 'violent transitions' ...

When water freezes into ice or boils into vapor, its properties change dramatically at specific temperatures. These so-called phase transitions are fundamental to understanding materials. But how do ...