The accelerating expansion of the universe is usually explained by an invisible force known as dark energy. But a new study ...

Dark matter remains one of the most compelling enigmas in modern cosmology. Although it does not emit light, its gravitational influence is essential for the formation and evolution of cosmic ...

“By combining the expertise and scientific potential of our three partner institutions, we are creating a global hub for excellence and knowledge transfer in theoretical physics,” says Johannes Henn ...

No matter how elegant your theory is, experimental data will have the last word. Observations of the retrograde motion of the planets were fundamental to the Copernican revolution, in which the sun ...

Cosmologists face a dilemma. The rise of quantitative cosmology, exemplified by the release of new data in March on the cosmic microwave background from the WMAP satellite (see pp16-19; print version ...

What if the universe didn’t begin with a bang–but with a memory? In Brahman: All This Whatsoever That Moves, debut author Krishnamurthy Ramakrishnan dismantles the Big Bang Theory’s dominance and ...

The e-mail arrived out of the blue last week. Did I want to attend a “private screening” in Covent Garden, London, of a new short film about cosmology, particle physics and love? It sounded ...

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to James Peebles “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology” and to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type ...

Stuart Clark's new book sweeps over you like a maelstrom of names, places and ideas. In The Unknown Universe, Clark sets out to describe the state of our knowledge — and lack thereof — about central ...

As a doctoral candidate in physics, you will enjoy both flexibility and support as you narrow your field of inquiry and decide on a dissertation topic. The Brandeis doctoral program in physics begins ...