A new Duke Quantum Center study shows how quantum simulators can help researchers explore particle formation and the ...

What do physicists agree on? Well, not much, it appears. This is the finding of a large survey of more than 1,600 physicists ...

Most scientists think that everything that we know and experience began with the Big Bang, 14 billion years ago. But how can ...

Researchers have successfully simulated the birth of fundamental matter on three separate quantum computers, replicating ...

“The Big Bang” is the idea that the universe began as “just a single point,” then expanded and stretched to grow as large as it is right now—and it is still stretching! This radical new theory on the ...

Our universe may have been born in a gravitational crunch that formed a very massive black hole—followed by a bounce inside it. The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a ...

Scientists recreated a particle-forming process linked to the extreme physics of the early universe using a 13-ion quantum simulator. The breakthrough suggests quantum computers could eventually help ...

This article is part of a special package on “Impossible Questions”—scientific quandaries that may never get definitive answers. Read the rest of the collection here. The big bang wasn’t a bang in the ...

Mayim Bialik tells Neil DeGrasse Tyson about transitioning from acting to neuroscience—then playing a scientist on The Big ...

The Universe between recombination (redshift z ≈ 1,000 or 400,000 years after the Big Bang) and the later formation of the first generation of stars at z≈ 30 to 12 (~100 to 300 million years after the ...