The field of physics may be turned on its head soon, said renowned physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed during a live lecture from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. Subscribe ...

The 2006 Nobel prize for physics went to two scientists, John C Mather and George F Smoot, who successfully detected the universe's birth-pangs. Their achievement builds on the discovery of "cosmic ...

If that seems like a weird question to you, consider the fact that it's the one most pressing for physicists and for their most successful theory about the physical world. That theory is called ...