Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

In its first moments, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. These elementary particles ...

The way time ticks forward in our universe has long stumped physicists. Now, a new set of tools from entangled atoms to black ...

Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival ...

For those who watch gravitational waves roll in from the universe, GW250114 is a big one. It's the clearest gravitational wave signal from a binary black hole merger to date, and it gives researchers ...

IN various papers published during the last ten years Prof. Townsend has developed a theory of the ionisation of gases by collision, and has published experimental results which give it strong ...

Global growth is projected at –4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity ...