The mystery of dark matter—unseen, pervasive, and essential in standard cosmology—has loomed over physics for decades. In new ...

"It highlights gravity's possible hidden complexity and invites a reevaluation of where dark matter effects originate." ...

In the wake of bombshell findings that suggest dark energy might be weakening as the universe expands, physicists are considering replacing the standard cosmological model of the universe with exotic ...

Quantum theory has long treated time as a silent backdrop, a parameter that never jitters even as particles flicker in and out of superposition. A new line of work now argues that this picture is ...

Ian G. McCarthy receives funding from UKRI's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). He works for Liverpool John Moores University. Given how unfathomably large the universe is, it is ...