Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. If you were a physicist in the early 20th century, there would have ...

Humanity has achieved remarkable feats, yet 95% of the universe remains invisible and unexplained. Our theories, general ...

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...

At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

A bizarre "cosmic glitch" in the theory of how the gravity of the universe works may have been mended. The strange glitch in Einstein's description of gravity in his theory of general relativity may ...

The search for quantum gravity is the next big step in physics, as researchers seek to unify the physics of the very small ...

‘I love the idea that this basic principle that Einstein told us about a long time ago is something you can see,’ CU Boulder astrophysicist says Scientists who study the cosmos have a favorite ...

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A team of physicists with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology has calculated more precisely how much faster time passes on the moon than on the Earth. The paper ...

New research from a CU Boulder physicist might break open the mathematical puzzle that has stalled string theory research for decades A University of Colorado Boulder physicist is one step closer to ...