How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the ...

LOOK closely enough and almost everything we know of in the universe boils down to a handful of elementary particles. These entities constitute individual threads of the scientific masterpiece that is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. If there's one thing you can count on physicists for, it's to keep an ...