Researchers at Tampere University and the University of Eastern Finland have reached a milestone in a study where they derived a new kind of wave equation, which applies for accelerating waves. The ...

An exceptionally loud collision between two black holes has been detected by the LIGO gravitational wave observatory, ...

Physics has a bit of a messy problem: There's matter missing in our universe. Something is there that we can't see, but scientists can detect. "When we look at how stars move in galaxies, they move as ...

Light's behavior seems counterintuitive. That is, until you figure out light is a wave. The way light behaves can seem very counterintuitive, and many physicists would agree with that, but once you ...

Our standard model of elementary particles and forces has recently become as close to “complete” as we could conceivably ask for. Every single one of the elementary particles — in all their different ...

Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies in Germany. Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World David Kaiser Univ. Chicago Press (2020) ...