A new model of the Universe suggests that modifying Newton's theory of gravity could do away with the need for dark matter. The model instead relies on an as-of-yet undiscovered form of gravity to ...

Physicists are quietly rolling out a new generation of simulation codes that promise to do more than crunch numbers. By ...

Illustration of the new method: the researchers use five-dimensional black holes (right) to calculate the phase diagram of strongly coupled matter (middle), enabling simulations of neutron star ...

Polarized light is one of the most powerful tools scientists have for peering inside matter, yet the way it twists, scatters ...

A research team from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an ...

Astronomers have put together one of the most comprehensive maps of all the matter in the universe. The huge undertaking hints at a slightly smoother universe than we thought, suggesting that ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — As deforestation, climate change and other pressures threaten habitats, how might chimpanzees adapt? An interdisciplinary research team has turned to the physical laws that govern ...

Dark matter has had incredible explanatory power. After the introduction of the concept in the early 1980s, dark matter quickly became a central feature of our cosmological picture of the Universe.