Dark matter is a ghostly substance that astronomers have failed to detect for decades, yet which we know has an enormous influence on normal...

IntroductionQuantum teleportation isn’t just science fiction; it’s entirely real and happening in laboratories today. But teleporting quantum particles and information is a far cry...

Having emerged from amateur beginnings in the backyards of radio engineers, radio astronomy is now the focus of elite, international global consortia. Emma Chapman...

IntroductionClusters of hundreds or thousands of galaxies sit at the intersections of giant, crisscrossing filaments of matter that form the tapestry of the cosmos....

Jean-Yves Desaules1, Guo-Xian Su2,3,4, Ian P. McCulloch5, Bing Yang6, Zlatko Papić1, and Jad C. Halimeh7,81School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2...

IntroductionTime seems linear to us: We remember the past, experience the present and predict the future, moving consecutively from one moment to the next....

Physicists in Italy have observed a phenomenon known as false vacuum decay for the first time. The work, which was performed in a ferromagnetic...

IntroductionBy making maps of the magnetic fields hidden inside massive galaxy clusters, astronomers are getting closer to finding the origin of cosmic magnetism. “These are...

In the search for a cosmological model that perfectly explains our universe, most astronomers invoke the notion of dark matter. But...

IntroductionWhat a joy — pun intended — to co-host season 3 of The Joy of Why alongside (metaphorically if not physically in space or...

IntroductionIn the early 2000s, it seemed that cosmologists had solved the largest and most complex puzzle of all: how the universe works. “There was this...

Physics isn’t a popularity contest, but the 10 most read articles published on the Physics...